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mental illness
Ok, well two of my aunts are basically nuts, not to be mean. its never been confirmed scitzophrenia or anything, but basically everybody has decided it. one i have never met and the other is in and out of rehab all the time. well heres my question, they say mental illness can be genetic, and that it hits in your early adulthood/ late teens. they also say its sometimes accompanied by depression, and ive been going through that for a couple years now. i was just wondering if even though it was my aunts and not my parents if it is still as possible to happen to me? im just really scared bc i dont want my life to be ruined by it like theirs was. thanks:)
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First things first mental illness does not ruin lives. It can only do that if the person is never treated. Many people with mental illness including Scizophrenia can have normal and productive lives. It's a misconception tothink mental illness always destroys lives as it doesn't. I know this first hand.
Mentally ill people are usually just the same as you and I and you'd never know provided they were following the correct treatment, taking meds and meeting with a psychiatrist regularly.
Your aunt nor anyone else like her isn't "nuts." She needs help obviously and hasn't got any yet for it. Once she does you will see a vast difference if in fact she really does have a mental illness. It's wrong to self-diagnose anybody including yourself. That's the psychiatrist's job to do not your family's.
Until such times as she sees a psychiatrist you shouldn't pass judgment of her. While it's true mental illness may be genetic it often isn't.
You could have someone for example with bipolar disorder or depression and nobody in his entire family tree ever had it. The fact is anyone can become mental ill and that it never discriminates genetics or not. Anyone can have it.
Mental illness doesn't play favorites it can and does grab anyone into its web. Some mental illness especially bipolar disorder starts in the late teens/early adulthood but not alwaysas it can hit at any stage of a person's life. We're not sure why. each case is unique.
Is it still possible you may become mentally ill? The answer is yes if it's in your genes (doesn't matter who it is) and then again you might never experience it in your life regardless of your DNA.
Instead of being fearful go on living life as normal. If you end up having a mental health problem later on don't worry. You will get the proper treatment and will be able to lead the same kind of life you have now if not better. Nobody would know the difference unless you revealed it to them.
You're in all liklihood completely fine here. The important thing to know is that mental illness doesn't always ruin lives and won't ruin yours even if you did become mentally ill. Treatment would make you whole again as it has in my case.
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