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Originally Posted by Palomeno18 Hello there. How is everyone.
I just recently found out that two of my cousins have bi polar disorder and I have another cousin who has it.
Are people just born with it, or do they inherited it from other family members? These are cousins from my moms side. The whole family has had problems with depression.
Now on my dad's side, I have an aunt who is also bi polar.
In what ways to people help treat bi polar? Thank you for all your help. |
Palomeno18,
Just because you have mental illness running on both sides of your family, does not mean you will have mental illness too. From what I have read and been told by my doctors, is that people who have mental illness in their families and have "dramatic events" taking place in your life, can trigger depression or even something worse.
I too have mental illness in my mother's side of the family, but yet not every one of my siblings has mental disease. Four out of six kids in my family are "normal" by most standards and me and another sibling (although she refuses to be diagnosed) have a mental disease.
Have you had any symptoms of a mental illness or was this just a general question?
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