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I have always wondered about this. For me, my father was what they used to call "manic depressive" so the genetic link was strong. BUT I had a traumatic childhood with abuse. I believe I would have had bipolar regardless but I think the trauma actually altered my brain due to how young I was and made the bipolar worse or...more prevalent.
Yet I know people with strong genetic predispositions for Bipolar and they have had a perfectly fine childhood and grow up not exhibiting any symptoms of any mental illness.
I know people who have had normal childhoods end up with Bipolar disorder and its almost out of left field.
I also know people who have no mental illness in their genetics at all but they have had a traumatic childhood and they also have Bipolar disorder.
So I wonder how much environment plays into mental illness and how much genetics play into it.
If I had a normal happy childhood would I still be Bpolar?
What do you all think?
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