Well, sqrl, meet me Neither one of my parents are BP but I have cousins, uncles, etc that are. It's definitely in my genes but my parents escaped it, well, maybe the more I think about it, my father did display some symptoms of it but we knew nothing about the disorder then. He's no longer living. So, the jury is out on my parents I guess. Depression runs rampant in my family though but none as bad as mine, although my brother did attempt suicide a few years ago and was almost successful. The doctors said that another 5 to 10 minutes and they would've lost him. Thankfully they got to him in time.