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Pico
Lv 7

Have either one of your paretns been diagnosed with a mental illness?

My father is bi-polar with clinical depression, I'm schizoaffective. I don't know if there is a link... My mom is totally fine.

Update:

my father is dead to me as well. I haven't seen him in over 20 years. He left to go 'find himself' and never came back.

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    My brother and I diagnosed my mother with Bipolarism, but it's hard to talk to her about going to see a doctor because she thinks they are all quacks. We have to live with her psycho acts.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    My parents, no. I'm sure they should be. My grandmother on my fathers side was. I am bipolar, bi-personality disorder, clinical and major, with a little post stress disorder. I have experienced a psychotic episode in 1999 that put me in the hospital for two weeks.

  • 1 decade ago

    Only if you count Alzheimers.

    Schizoaffective is the extreme end of the bipolar spectrum, so yes, there is a link.

  • My mum is fine... my dad is dead to me

    Well mine rejected me at birth

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  • 1 decade ago

    not "diagnosed"...but both of them are borderlineing on insane, and i'm seriously depressed here :P

  • 1 decade ago

    No but they are both crazy as hell !!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't know

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Not as yet, no.

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