When I first was declared bipolar, I went and checked my family tree. My parents did not have any mental illness, and my mother family did not bring up any red flags. My father died in a car accident when I was a little girl. I never had any contact with my fathers family. When I was digging into that nest of people, red flags were coming up. With his family tree, and checking cousins he had. During the 20th century, I was able to find 26 suicides, and a number of questionable deaths. Like parking your car in a garage, leaving the car running, and still call it a accidental death. The strangest death, in 1960, she was a nurse working the night shift alone. They found her dead in the morning, after spending hours alone taken every type of medication from the medicine area. Do have a family member who dyed in a mental hospital. Sure, you can get a lobotomy to cure your manic moods, but for him, having so much brain damage you had to spend the rest of your life in a mental hospital is no fun in the park.