Thanks for the article Sometimes! It was very interesting.

My pdoc said at my last appointment that we know lots of genes are implicated in mental illness, but large studies can't show that a specific gene causes a specific illness, so this is very interesting. If you look at genes for specific symptoms, then that cuts out any error rate for the diagnosis. What I mean is we construct the diagnosis of sz in a particular way using the DSM, but there is huge variability with symptoms and prognosis, which leads to some concluding that sz is too heterogenous to be one disorder. Plus what label should I have - should I be bipolar with psychotic features or schizoaffective? Well it depends on how we agree to construct those labels, but if we can say that this gene causes auditory hallucinations and we can discover a way to treat it...well I must admit that gene therapy has always made me nervous because we don't fully understand what changing one gene will do to the whole...but it's a very interesting topic!

I come from a very large extended family and no one, except me, has bipolar or sz symptoms. All we have is some depression, SAD & ADHD.

*Willow*