If you have bipolar disorder, there is bipolar in your family genetically. Genetics means that your matrilineal or patrilineal family line had bipolar disorder and passed it on to you. It can skip a generation, but in my experience, it is pretty easy to find bipolar disorder in your family tree. This means that any child who has a grand parent, parent, aunt, uncle or cousin with bipolar has a chance to get bipolar disorder. It’s in the child, percolating. In many cases, due to lack of the written word, we can’t track back far enough to find our genetic bipolar, but the stories are there. – We had an uncle who was SO smart, but he kept getting married and divorced and could not stay off the sauce. – My [ Read More ]
