Smile and the world smiles with you: Happiness IS infectious... but depression can't be passed on, study finds The results indicate that being friends with someone who is depressed does not put you at risk of becoming depressed yourself and it is likely to help the other person recover.
Researchers at Manchester University and Warwick University looked at more than 2,000 teenagers in a network of US high school students to see how their mood influenced each other.
The team found that while depression does not 'spread', having enough friends with healthy mood can halve the probability of it developing
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