Did you inherit bipolar (or your condition(s)).
are you much like your family members?

I did. I’m not like my mom, but she was diagnosed bipola (and later schizophrenic—which I didn’t agree with; shwas paranoid though). And she was textbook BPD.

Part of why I denied my diagnosis was that I’m not like her. I didn’t know much about bipolar or how people just don’t fall into clean buckets.

Yikes, I just edited because I realized I wrote something that could be a trigger. Sorry if you saw that. I don’t know how to do the trigger hide, so I deleted it.