There have been a couple of items in the news lately about type 2 diabetes and depression, stating that people who have type 2 are more prone to depression.

This, to me, is one of those duh articles. It makes sense that someone with a chronic disease would be more prone to depression. It's hard. Constantly thinking about food and dosing makes ME depressed sometimes - I can't imagine how it would be to have the disease.

I worry about this for Olivia. I suffer from depression and there's a good chance that she could inherit that tendency, too. I hope she doesn't, but the odds are there and they worry me.

It's not bad enough to have diabetes, to have the day-to-day drudgery of taking care of a chronic condition but to also have the threat of depression hanging over her seems unfair, like it's too much to ask of her.

I keep an eagle eye out for signs of depression in her. She has a lot going on - an absentee father, middle school dramas, the general angst of being a teenager - and I do worry that any one of those things could send her over the edge. It's hard to tell the difference between run-of-the-mill teenage moodiness and actual depression. It's hard to talk to her about it, too, since she tends to become monosyllabic when I try to pry her feelings out of her.

I'm hoping I'm just being overly cautious when I contemplate these things, but the recent articles about it brought it to the front of my mind again.