My father had apparently some issues. Was on psychmeds for something... but I think it was rather because his neurotic mother who never learned to handle life did not want to deal with a problem child. He was brilliant as IQ goes. Nuclear physicist. (thinking of which my mom studied on technical high school. She worked in construction planning... and yet these two people spewed a somebody who barely passed maths and physics in High school and now is totally and hopelessly into humanities. Genetics? Nurture? I was never brought up to be impractical and abstract!)

My mom may have some issues too... I think. Or maybe just life worn her down, because she lost too much. She tends to have moodswings and looking at her career (dropped out of economic lyceum to study on technical high school ("it was great! We were four girls in the entire class!"), working on the railroad ("free tickets"), then going onto the social field (worked with youngsters, although in the tech dept.), later construction planning, then working again in social, then in... could be called creative field... a company making traditional gingerbreads. My mom was the artsy one, working on the big things like gingerbread small scale copy of the famous Clock tower... or gingerbread houses done in amazing detail. But she could bend the metal well to make the cookie cutters. Now she works in foster care. Beside this she is licenced aromatherapist, had requlification in accounting, cosmetics, feng-shuei...). Sounds either as a genius... or as somebody extremelly disorganized...

I can see quirks of my parents in me. Not sure if it is all bad genetics and if they had disorders that should be treated... they certainly both struggled in their lifes and were somehow unstable and at times too spontageous...

I am not bitter. I believe it is to a big degree human nature. And yes, my inability to deal with life in more mature way.