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Originally Posted by pachyderm
I'd like to throw some cold water on this idea. First of all, your grandmother's behavior can well have influenced your mother, and she influenced you. So I don't see how anyone can say it is all genetic.
I think the "biopsychosocial" model is most likely correct: there are influences from all of these: one's biological (hereditary) makeup, plus psychological influences from one's family experiences as a child, plus the effects of society -- those cannot be insignificant. People are naturally variable in their vulnerability to outside influences, so whether one becomes "mentally ill" is not due only to one factor.
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I think you might have something there with how predisposition and psychological influence might go hand in hand.