I have no history of bipolar in my family, but by God does my psychiatrist seem to think both my parents, my grandparents, my cousins once, twice and three times removed and probably their dogs, too, have undiagnosed bipolar.
Lots of alcohol abuse, depression, domestic violence, child abuse, bad decision-making, just general not having their lives together, sui tendencies...
And here I thought I'd escaped all of that. I was supposed to be the "good" one. And yet I'm the only one in my family actually diagnosed with anything. It makes me feel like crap, that's for sure.
Joys of genetics, heh? But I agree with avlady.
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