Everyone suffers from depression of some sort over their lifetime. It just depends on how bad it gets. I have suffered from some forms of depression, but it was situational depression. Once I got out of the situations that caused it, I got a lot better. I have never suffered from clinical depression, and I hope I never will. My mother, on the other hand, suffered a lot with depression, and my father had a nervous breakdown because of situational depression. I think I'm very prone to it, so I try and keep myself as happy as I can. I get lots of sleep, eat well, do things I enjoy and surround myself with positive people. That, in itself, can make a world of difference in being depressed or not.