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I have found there is a strong history of mental illness and addiction in my family.

I suspected my immediate family, but apparently some grandparents were institutionalized as well back in the day for psychological/bipolar/depression/mania and all that.

That caught me off guard, but made me feel a bit like all my screwed up life wasn't ENTIRELY my fault - we appear to have a genetic tendency towards certain behaviors...family tradition.


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It's the same thing with my family. I have relatives a few generations back that were sent away to hospitals, allegedy for TB, but now it is coming to light that most of them were actually put in mental institutions. It also turns out that there is a history of both psychological problems and epliepsy in my family, and since epelectics were treated like mental patients up until the 60's, it is not clear the entire expent of the actually psychological problems that existed, which is a little scary.