Poll Do You Have A Parent Or Parent's That Have Mental Health Issues?

[DharmaGirl]

My dad was schizophrenic, as was my older brother, my mom and brothers are alcoholics. I am high functioning with PTSD.

 

[aka]

Yes, there is a history of mental illness on my father side I don't know anything about my mothers because she was adopted. My grandfathers brother committed suicide(long time before I was born), my grandmother had anxiety issues, my brother and a cousin were diagnosed with having bipolar disorder, my father(who has the exact same personality as me) fights with depression, and my other brother has aspergers.

 

[p-no]

Almost 89% YES... Holy...

 

[Changing4Best]

My mom had post partem psychosis and ended up in the mental ward for quite some time after my birth. Also, she took thorazine all her life after that. She was diagnosed as Manic-Depressive which is called Bi-Polar these days.

I am Bi-Polar, PTSD and the jury is still out on Borderline Personality Disorder. I was born dyslexic and also am Intersexed (which is a birth condition that occurs in 2 out of every 1000 babies, though most of us are changed surgically one way or the other at birth and never even informed of it!). Doctors in general advised that last around the time I was born. I'm not sure what they advise these days. (I'm 58 now).

 

[Deleted member 12723]

My dad was insane. He was a sociopath. I am glad he is dead.

 

[Abstract]

Which to me makes their behaviour over the years all the more astonishing.

I agree with that Lucy. It's harder to understand.

 

[Ice_Fire]

Yes definitely. However my mother has had numerous assessments after her behaviour has been picked up on, but as of yet, she's not been diagnosed. Doesn't mean there's nothing wrong though.

 

[nimkekaa]

I'm pretty sure both my parents did. I think that's why there were just severe alcoholics. Self medicating. I think my father had PTSD. My sister and I always remember having to use a broom to poke my dad when he was sleeping to wake him up because he always woke up swinging. When we were younger we thought is was funny and just something dad did but that is definately not normal. Also I like to think that you have to have some sort of mental disorder to be able to kill someone.

My mother seemed to have a real warped view on reality. I remember her telling my dad and other people about things that happened and just staring at what she was saying. It was nothing like the truth and yet I believe that she truly believed what she was saying.

 

[shoulderblades]

My mother had borderline-personality disorder, and I strongly suspect PTSD. She was a very, very messed up woman. She had a heart of gold, but living with her was in and of itself often traumatic. We were very close - I loved and still dearly love my mother - but I have also recognised how imperfect she was and how much damage she caused me. She died when I was 17 (I'm 32 now).

As for my father... I never grew up with him, he was never in my life except for random visits that were over in less than an hour. He has many problems that stem from his childhood. I only know this because I worked up the courage to meet him properly for the first time when I was 27. Doing so opened up so many wounds I hadn't realised I had; I became extremely unwell and unstable as a result of being confronted by my father's past, about the fact that he abandoned me as a baby in favour of pursuing his own leisures, and things he knew about my mother that I never knew.

Both sides - mother and father - experienced intense childhood trauma. It's no wonder they were (and are, in my father's case, as he's still alive) so messed up.

 

[cookinggal]

My mother, her mother, her mothers mother and my grandfather and myself all have Bi-Polar disorder. My Bi-Polar disorder was diagnosed when I was 14.

 

[Raj]

My mother and grandmother have and had fondness for medical care beyond the norm. They singled out of their many children only one to truly give darn about.

If they could not be cruel they could not be happy, if they could not be ill they could not feel alive.

 

[Pencil]

Both my parents had serious issues, but were never diagnosed.