Okay. I've typed this four times because it keeps logging me out so I'm going to be very short.
No one in my family or extended family has any history of mental illness. Environment is a bigger factor than genetics. I highly doubt my kids would develop the illness because I would not ever expose them to the things I was as a child. I would not neglect them or leave them to the wolves like a coward. I also had traumatic things happen to me as a teenager that pushed me over the edge. It wasn't like one day I woke up crazy, there were certain things that happened to me that caused it to happen.