As I am slowly learning to cope with myself and be patient that my treatment center will get me better results to get me in a good state of mind, I've read several details about what causes bipolar.

One startling fact I noticed is my mother had the flu while pregnant with me. I saw that to be a possible cause.

[r010159]

Originally Posted by Lmciyah

As I am slowly learning to cope with myself and be patient that my treatment center will get me better results to get me in a good state of mind, I've read several details about what causes bipolar.

One startling fact I noticed is my mother had the flu while pregnant with me. I saw that to be a possible cause.

I am no doctor, but I think you are streaching reality a bit associating your observation with what happened with your mother. I would be really really surprised if this has any validity at all. Bipolar appears to be a genetic based disease, and not based on flus or colds.

Probably, but Google it. A lot of information pertaining to it.

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The senior researcher said the results can't prove that a mother's bout of flu while pregnant causes her child to develop the mental disorder, but the association does suggest that some cases might be prevented.

Quote from one of the research findings. Perhaps one has to have a predisposition to this illness before influenza can be considered a factor. These studies are very preliminary. There are so many factors that need to be considered before one can consider these studies to have any significance at all.

Nevertheless, it is interesting.

[BipolaRNurse]

I had the flu and a high fever when I was pregnant with my older son. He's the only one of my kids who turned out to be bipolar. I don't know that there's a connection between the two, but he certainly inherited some bad genes because I'm bipolar and I'm very sure my mother was as well. It'll be interesting to see how the long-term studies on this topic turn out.

[Trippin2.0]

I'm the only bipolar in my family. I'm so asking my mom if she had the flu while pregnant with me, maybe I was merely predisposed, until the flu frucked me over.

[Blitter2014]

I have bipolar, BPD and OCD. I don't know why, and there is not a lot I can do about it other than learn to cope and do the best I can with my life.

I'm not sure I want to know why, and no matter what the research said, I know my mum loves me and did the best she could while she was pregnant. Getting the flu or not getting the flu, I am sure that something, somehow, somewhere along the lines I would have developed bipolar. Its a bit like people who develop a form of cancer, I think you are either predesposed to get it or your not. Some people do all the right things and still get cancer, others all the wrong things and live healthy full lives.

Personally I think so many of the health issues we have today are due to the chemicals we have created over the last century which are now impregnated in our air, water and food sources..........

Originally Posted by Blitter2014

I have bipolar, BPD and OCD. I don't know why, and there is not a lot I can do about it other than learn to cope and do the best I can with my life.

I'm not sure I want to know why, and no matter what the research said, I know my mum loves me and did the best she could while she was pregnant. Getting the flu or not getting the flu, I am sure that something, somehow, somewhere along the lines I would have developed bipolar. Its a bit like people who develop a form of cancer, I think you are either predesposed to get it or your not. Some people do all the right things and still get cancer, others all the wrong things and live healthy full lives.

Personally I think so many of the health issues we have today are due to the chemicals we have created over the last century which are now impregnated in our air, water and food sources..........

Good point about the chemicals. They say the average life expectancy is longer than in the past, but that's because of better treatments, not because we are healthier or have less disease.
Oh yea, I mentioned the flu thing because of my fascination with the correlation between the two.

Originally Posted by Blitter2014

I have bipolar, BPD and OCD. I don't know why, and there is not a lot I can do about it other than learn to cope and do the best I can with my life.

I'm not sure I want to know why, and no matter what the research said, I know my mum loves me and did the best she could while she was pregnant. Getting the flu or not getting the flu, I am sure that something, somehow, somewhere along the lines I would have developed bipolar. Its a bit like people who develop a form of cancer, I think you are either predesposed to get it or your not. Some people do all the right things and still get cancer, others all the wrong things and live healthy full lives.

Personally I think so many of the health issues we have today are due to the chemicals we have created over the last century which are now impregnated in our air, water and food sources..........

Totally agree.

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Originally Posted by Lmciyah

Good point about the chemicals. They say the average life expectancy is longer than in the past, but that's because of better treatments, not because we are healthier or have less disease.

Oh yea, I mentioned the flu thing because of my fascination with the correlation between the two.

Now this is something that I can believe without concrete proof!

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