Posted by butternut on March 2, 2011, at 15:36:03
In reply to Re: who has a family history of mental illness? » obsidian, posted by floatingbridge on February 6, 2011, at 14:24:39
I sure do! There were five kids in my mom's family. Grandma a little anxious, grandpa an alcoholic with bouts of depression. Of the five kids, all but one have had problems: those problems are schizophrenia, depressed (with suicide attempt), bipolar later called schizoaffective, and one with relatively mild or moderate depression/anxiety. My mom was the bipolar/schizoaffective one. My sister and I have strugged with depression and anxiety. I think me more seriously than my sis. Starting in elementary had episodes of anxiousness and even depersonalization. Kept it together till my college years, when I kind of fell apart and had to see a doc to be put on meds. Never been the same since! Sadly, many male cousins on my mom's side have had schizophrenia, and many other cousins have bipolar or depression, and there is a lot of addiction issues which I have mercifully been spared.
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