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[Sian]

Well, it looks like today is all about learning for me!

Tommeh, had you mentioned this before? Lynne is right BTW, we lubs you LOADS! :wink:

[Tommeh!!!]

mhmm, its in my user biography thing...lost in the many many pages id imagine i try not to mention it much though...i hate people who milk such things. it can also lead to alot of prejudice.

[StareGirl]

Interesting about Peek, Lynne.  I am able to multi-task or whatever you call it in such a way. For example, I will do math with my left hand while I take notes on my english lecture with my right.  I will understand both just fine. My brain, however, is split normally.

When he reads two books, does he use one eye for each or ??

[Sian]

Staregirl, send me some of these magical powers you have! I could use that ability to watch my kids!

What a fantastic gift to have....I'm jealous! :roll:

[StareGirl]

Last semester I had one teacher who I drove crazy.  I got one of the highest scores in the class, and I would draw cartoons with my right hand during his lectures while I took notes with my left hand. I want to share some of the cartoons with him when class starts next month.  I think he will get a good laugh because they are about subject matters he taught.

[Sian]

God, I feel inadequate!

I don't have a special talent or gift... but so many of you guys do!

I bet your teacher would love those cartoons...I know it would give me a laugh! Frame them!

[ladyamethyst090121]

can you be born with a mental illness,if so what type and what is the earliest time to tell?

Yes, you can, usually by genetics. A good examples of genetic disorders is Klinefelter's Syndrome. Klinefelter's is when there is an XXY chromosome for males when typically males have just XY chromosomes. It is very severe, and most people afflicted with Klinefelter's hardly live past childhood. That's just one example--there are many.

How you can prevent it is researching your own genetics. Did my aunt have this, and did my grandfather not have it? Draw out a Punnett's square to decide your chances on, if you have a child, the child getting the affliction if there is one. You can also use the square to determine what the chances are of their eye color, hair color, physical attributes, etc. [/quote]

[femaledragon]

i think you can be... maybe. my grandma is bi-polar. and her son(my uncle) was also bi-polar. so i know certain, if not maybe all mental illnesses can run in the family. but i know with being bi-polar you don't get symptoms till maybe teenage if not late childhood years. so you could just be born with it and it doesn't "show up" until later in your life.

my grandmother and her sister (my great aunt) were both bi-polar/manic depressive. grandmother got it as an older woman, but her sister showed symptoms much earlier.

my sister and i are both ADD/ADHD, and both have been disagnosed and treated since we were very young. we both take adderall. well, i don't take mine often, it makes me sleepy and bleary, and stumps my problems solving skills and creativity.

i think i have read that bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia are two problems studied indicate may be genetic. i think they test for these thingsa using identical twins.
also, i know they don't think borderline personality disorder (unfortunate for me, my mother was  this) is not at all genetic....

[J.R.]

I inherited problems with depression/anxiety from my mom. alot of people I know also inherited things such as ADD and bipolar from one or both of their parents. yes, sadly it is possible, though it may be more complicated than I think.

[Aithne]

I inherited problems with depression/anxiety from my mom. alot of people I know also inherited things such as ADD and bipolar from one or both of their parents. yes, sadly it is possible, though it may be more complicated than I think.

And I'm one of said friends. My family has a huge history of mental illnesses so... I'm definately quite sure that quite a few mental illnesses are genetic. My father has some sort of ADD(I believe) and extreme panic disorder (definate, but dulled with age), both undiagnosed, so I can't be sure. As well as the fact of extreme emotional trauma in his past but lets not go into that... and we're pretty sure my half-brother's mom has bipolar... in fact... we're sure. She's just not diagnosed... along with her other issues... but anyway... there's four of us with siblings. My brother's got bipolar. My sister has some type of panic and mood disorder. I've got ADD. All diagnosed and medicated.... when we remember to take our pills. But... the rest of my family has alot of issues as well. All relating to each other. So... we're like the posterboard for illnesses that can be transmited in genetics, physical and mental. (Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, heart conditions, cancer, etc all in my family as well as mental issues) But yea... rant is over.

[CelticBeauty2008]

Saw this and had to reply.  From what I have read( in my psych classes) and heard, genetics does indeed play a HUGE roll in mental illness.

On my father's side of the family there is a very strong strain of bipolar disorder of varying degrees. My (paternal) grandmother, uncle, father and myself are all bipolar( my dad and I have a fairly mild form of it; on the other hand, my uncle has been hospitalized on more than one occation and has been suicidal often). One of his sons shows definate depressive symptoms, and one of my dad;s other sisters is also in therapy for issues as well. We also have ADHD( which can be a co-morbidity of Bipolar) in my family as well.

For me at least, my family history of bipolar disorder was a BIG factor in my current pdoc making the diagnosis.

As we jokingly say in my family "if you can;t share your mental illness with your loved ones, who the hell can you share it with"

My mother's either a saint or sadio machochist, because she gets to deal with not one but TWO people with MH issues ( dad and I)

[CelticBeauty2008]

Sasha,

I agree.. although I've been "odd", nervous and anxious all my life, it wasn;t till I was about 20 or so that I really began exhibiting symptoms of BP( though it wasn't officially diagnosed till a very short time ago).

My uncle was in his 40's when his was diagnosed( only after he disappeared for 4 days and had to be hospitalized) and my dad's BP was only diagnosed last year.

My uncle's youngest son is 24 and he is sadly showing the signs of it as well

[lostndarkness]

Last semester I had one teacher who I drove crazy.  I got one of the highest scores in the class, and I would draw cartoons with my right hand during his lectures while I took notes with my left hand. I want to share some of the cartoons with him when class starts next month.  I think he will get a good laugh because they are about subject matters he taught.

I envy you...