Family History

My husband should stop doing triathlons!

jk

I have a second cousin who's BP 2. Other than that, I'm the only diagnosed bipolar in the family, although in retrospect I think my mother was every bit as BP as I am. What I had was a family loaded with alcoholics and there was some depression and anxiety going on, but of course we didn't talk about those things back in the day. I think if my parents were still alive that I would never have had the guts to go and get help, and I'd probably have killed myself long ago.

Ok so my Mom has terrible anxiety & a lot of OCD behaviors, my Dad has depression, terrible rage issues & I'm pretty sure an undiagnosed personality disorder. Paternal grandfather terrible rage issues & alcoholic as were 2 of his brothers & his father was an alcoholic. My Mom's side of the family great grandfather schizophrenic, grandmother anxiety, 1 aunt with depression & anxiety, 1 uncle alcoholism & gambling addiction, 2 cousins who died by suicide (1 was diagnosed bipolar, depression & alcoholic & the other depression & anxiety), 1 cousin diagnosed bipolar, depression & anxiety, 2 cousins diagnosed depression & anxiety & I cousin with anxiety. As I told one of my cousins yesterday the apple didn't fall far from the tree & in our family it's a really big tree.