text: can being around a depressed person make you depressed? my son lives with me, and he is in a depressed mood all the time. i take meds for that, but he doesnt, but it seems im always depressed, and have to listen to him all the time, which is no problem, but he yells at me, etc, and i stay depressed too.  is his depression keeping me depressed? there are some very good articles concerning your questions. check out these sites:  http://www.healingwell.com/library/depression/aitken2.asp http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20030723-000001.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=7932064&dopt=abstract  and many, many more.