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I really don't know how to handle this, not handling it well actually....
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 586341" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Tia, OMG, you really connected with me in your last post!! Our family tree, on both sides, was so full of undiagnosed but obvious mental illness and I had the worst of it. While I was pregnant I ended up in the hospital for ten weeks for suicidal depression (back then you could actually stay in the hospital until you were better). As I sat in there, looking around at people who were psychotic, I thought, "I hope this baby is ok and I will never give birth to another one." As it is, my son is now 35 and has all the mental illnesses I had, and I adopted the rest of my kids. None of the adopted kids have the mental illness issues he has had all his life. I so very strongly hear you...but we can't go back in time and we can't really blame ourselves. When I got pregnant, I was doing well...it was a good period for me and before I was diagnosed with anything. Then I got sick again while pregnant.</p><p></p><p>For your dear daughter, I would not entirely rule out schizophrenia because it is so incredibly hereditary (I am reading a great book on that right now...about the genetic factor of schizophrenia). It is also highly treatable these days and many sx. do very well as long as they stay on their medications. And if she has DID or both, hey, they can treat those disorders as well these days. The point of the book that I'm reading is that no mental health issue is a death sentence (so to speak) anymore. </p><p></p><p>I actually do strongly believe in the paranormal, life after death, etc. I believe too, makes sense to me, that ghosts would be attracted to the mentally ill as sort of a kinship. But that's whole other thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 586341, member: 1550"] Tia, OMG, you really connected with me in your last post!! Our family tree, on both sides, was so full of undiagnosed but obvious mental illness and I had the worst of it. While I was pregnant I ended up in the hospital for ten weeks for suicidal depression (back then you could actually stay in the hospital until you were better). As I sat in there, looking around at people who were psychotic, I thought, "I hope this baby is ok and I will never give birth to another one." As it is, my son is now 35 and has all the mental illnesses I had, and I adopted the rest of my kids. None of the adopted kids have the mental illness issues he has had all his life. I so very strongly hear you...but we can't go back in time and we can't really blame ourselves. When I got pregnant, I was doing well...it was a good period for me and before I was diagnosed with anything. Then I got sick again while pregnant. For your dear daughter, I would not entirely rule out schizophrenia because it is so incredibly hereditary (I am reading a great book on that right now...about the genetic factor of schizophrenia). It is also highly treatable these days and many sx. do very well as long as they stay on their medications. And if she has DID or both, hey, they can treat those disorders as well these days. The point of the book that I'm reading is that no mental health issue is a death sentence (so to speak) anymore. I actually do strongly believe in the paranormal, life after death, etc. I believe too, makes sense to me, that ghosts would be attracted to the mentally ill as sort of a kinship. But that's whole other thread. [/QUOTE]
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