Re: Ask me about growing up with a Bi-Polar parent
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i think more people are being diagnosed as bi-polar because they used to be diagnosed as crazy/ass holes/psychos/depressed. now there is just a more specific diagnosis.
the disease most likely does have some kind of hereditary link.
it is sometimes very scary living life wondering if one day you will start having serious mental problems. my dad is bi-polar. i have two grandparents who were alcoholics. and an aunt who commited suicide after a mental breakdown. she was most likely schizophrenic.
i was severely depressed in my late teens. I am not bi-polar but it can be a scary thing to think about sometimes.
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I am sure you are correct in that is is more exactly diagnosed now than years ago. In the early years they just said my mom was depressed.
It is very scary living with the thought that you may end up like what you have seen in a relation that has a mental illness.
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