knowing how hard it is on my kids; here my son's dad suffered from major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia, plus quite a list of physical ailments, and was an alcoholic/addict and eventually drank and drugged himself to death; and here I am with bipolar---and he has seen me thru some pretty dark depressive episodes and very awful manic episodes. My daughter never met her father (different dads) but she also had to endure my episodes.