My Grandfather on my Mums side had depression, and used to spend the weekdays at Bethlem and have weekend leave. He also had alcohol issues, which are related to passed trauma. He died before I was born though.
My Mums sister has had depression in the past too.
Apart from that, its just me :) I'm semi unique :P
"If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness…people would be fairer and happier." Paulo Coelho
I put unique but mental health is taboo in our family, so I don't really know! Think my brothers aren't 'normal' or whatever but no diagnoses to confirm.
There will always be a happy ending. If its not happy then its not yet the end.
Mum + Dad + Brother + Maternal Grandparents + Maternal Uncles/Aunt = Depression
Maternal Uncles + Dad = Alcoholics.
I heard a rumour that great great aunt Nora once flashed a vicar...
- I forgot to choose this one too, But A long lost Great Something Aunt Was in an institution. Admission papers stated she couldn't cope with being a wife and had gone a little batty, aka totally nutty.
How I have a colourful family and yet everything is Taboo!
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Reason: Clourful isn't a word. >.<
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My great aunt Nora didn't actually flash a vicar, but that was the most appropriate as I think my great uncle had schizophrenia. To be fair, I think there's more mentalness around, but we don't really talk about it.
And of course, anyone who knows my mother will probably agree that she is emotionally unstable :P
My great aunt Nora didn't actually flash a vicar, but that was the most appropriate as I think my great uncle had schizophrenia. To be fair, I think there's more mentalness around, but we don't really talk about it.
And of course, anyone who knows my mother will probably agree that she is emotionally unstable :P
I'm the only one who is as bonkers as I've been when it comes to my blood family but there is a tendency of depression and there is definitely some personality disorder floating about! So I'm a snowflake when it comes to my illness.
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My father was an alcoholic and violent. Mom left after my brother got hurt, but she and my father were both alcoholics. She had a nervous breakdown once, was very much socially isolated, and while she was smart, when she drank, she was verbally abusive and occasionally physically so. My stepdad and brother took the brunt of that mostly, but I have come to the recent realization that I am socially isolated too and I have OCDs.
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Reason: too much detail before for general chat, want to obey RYL rules about what goes where
mother - "recovered" alcoholic, had postpartum depression after my helf-brother was born, and I am fairly sure that she has some form of eating disorder but she refuses to get it looked at
Uncle (dads side) - not sure what he has, but he was thrown out of the army as they discovered that he'd basically joined as a form of passive suicide
Grandmother (fathers side) - alcoholism
Gandfather (fathers side) - this is not definite as noone knows who he is other than my grandmother and one uncle, but there is a rumour that he had some form of psychosis
Not going to list all the others... but just assume that within every nuclear unit within the family there is at least 1 suicidal person and 2 alcoholics... that's the assumption I always go on at weddings and stuff when my family is involved and it's served me well thus far lol
I also have 2 cousins, who I've never met, who apparently have depression and bpd, but once again can't confirm that as it's just something I've heard
My uncle on my mums side had schizophrenia. And sounds like a pretty dodgy bloke. My dads actual birth mother was a burns victim and suffered severe PTSD. Although no one in our family, including my dad, has met her. I can't comment on my mums parents as I never but them but her father sounded like an abusive ********. My mum has suffered from depression also. So I have a feeling my depression is a chemical imbalance which can be set off at different times.
I didn't see an option for a few family members so I didn't vote, but at least four close family members have been through/ are going through various mental illnesses. Some of my Aunts, Uncles etc have had mental health problems, so there's a fair amount of mental illness on both maternal and paternal sides of my family.
My Dad had a nervous breakdown when I was a child. He became delusional and ended up shoplifting. In the end he changed jobs and we had to move.
My Mum has had very servere depression and also had a breakdown. She takes anti-depressants now and has been really stable and well for several years now.
I never realised how prevelant mental illness was until I met my sister-in-law and found out her Mum had very severe depression. Until then it was just my family that was affected, which sounds weird I know. It helped me feel less ashamed though.
