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Originally Posted by 1914sierra
The problem is that few of us have that much family information, and older generations generally weren't diagnosed because that just wasn't done.
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^ Yeah, that. There are stories of people in past generations of my family who seemed to suffer from mental illness, alcoholism or committed suicide, but no way to know what they would have been diagnosed with. I do have a couple of living relatives who have also received a BP diagnosis, but it's impossible to know how many more could have been in my family history.