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Bipolar Disorder and Genetics12/27/2007 |
If I get my girlfriend pregnet and I am bipolar will the kid be bipolar? Please let me know.
Thank you for your excellent question. Although bipolar disorder is often inherited, keep in mind two things:
1) "Genes do not equal destiny." All because other family members have a disease, it doesn't mean 100% that a child will have it, it just increases the probability.
2) Even though the cause of bipolar disorder is probably biological, its course (or how it develops over time) is influenced in positive and negative ways by environmental events (e.g., home life, school, friends, therapy, medications, etc.).
I hope this answer is helpful.
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Nicholas Lofthouse, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry College of Medicine The Ohio State University |
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