Article: My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

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22. That's interesting...

I entered a comment down thread and decided to decline inclusion of my family history with mental illness, until I saw your post. So, I've changed my mind and would like to share that I, too have done a similar inquiry about the frequency in my family. Seems to be at least one individual maternal AND paternal each generation. And there are varying degrees of it per individual. In my immediate family there is am occurrence of three out of six children of the same two parents, every other one (of children 1,2,3,4,5,6 children 2,4, and 6 were affected). That and one of the parents. Children 2 and 6 are still alive and past 50, neither are receiving treatment and it's a matter of avoiding them to avoid violent outbursts. They commiserate together and have varying degrees of the same thing, whatever it is, but it includes violence in the presence pf certain individuals which ends up getting police involved but never mental health assessments.

I am in the fence about how helpful the mental health industrial complex is by generalizing in a world of acute individuality, but I have seen a couple cases where it was only useful in completely incapacitating a troubled mind rather than actually addressing what the troubled individual is trying to communicate. A lot of it requires patience that seems to be tabu in our culture an this century.

There could well be hereditary indicators and I wonder whether that is the route of occurrence for some of these affections too.