Just wondering, does schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder run in your family genes? If so do you worry about passing it on to your children?
I’m the only one in my immediate family with SZA but bipolar is in my family. I’m scared of starting a family and passing along the genes. Am I right to be scared?
I don’t know if this makes sense, but I think a precursor to schizophrenia runs on my father’s side of the family. I think he has it and his sister and brother have it. He has another sister and brother who don’t appear to have it.
My dad and uncle have a really bad temper. I used to yell before I was medicated. Interestingly, when I didn’t take Geodon at the right time with food, I yelled and was surprised this happened as I hadn’t been yelling and was cognizant, when all of a sudden I yelled. This means, that my medication literally stopped me from yelling and that the yelling was not intentional.
My father and uncle yell too. Basically, their reaction to a situation is stronger than necessary.
I got to the point where I hear voices. I don’t think they hear voices, but they have thoughts that upset them just the way that I did before it advanced to where I hear voices.
I have a theory about things that happened to me at a young age that didn’t happen to them. That this circumstance may have given me a greater instance of having the same mental issue or disorder that they have advance into schizophrenia where theirs didn’t.
Nobody in my family has it. But my mother is way out there with her thoughts. She is very spiritual and believes in odd things. She’s into card reading, healing, energies and stuff like that.
I’m not going to have any children. But that’s mainly because of my panic attacks and anxiety. I don’t want anyone suffer like I have. It’s been one horrible journey.
They say if one parent has schizophrenia then it’s a 10% chance that the child develops it. If both parents have it the number is 40%.
I don’t know about bipolar though?
No idea
One half of my family have never been around
My grandmother had sz.
I have 3 living children, two of them are over the age of 25, and although I have thought about the possibility of them inheriting my illness it never stopped me from having them.
All three of them are healthy physically and so far, mentally, and I am grateful for that.
If one of them was to develop sz or sza then I would know to get them help immediately and be supportive of them in a way that my mother was not able to when I was diagnosed because she refused to believe it. I would believe it and I think it would make a world of difference in their recovery.
I don’t regret having my kids.
I think it runs on my mom’s side, but I am not sure. I have to deal with the illness on my own.
I won’t have a family of my own or kids. I don’t want kids anyways and don’t want to pass on my genes or my illness.
I think I have a cousin who might have schizophrenia, but I am not sure.
I really don’t know.
Schizophrenia walks slowly in my family. Blocks the sidewalk. Annoying.
My grandmother had it. Not afraid of passing it on.
I think at least one uncle had psychosis
I want one or 2 kids.
So passing it on does cross my mind
I have an uncle, and distant uncles who have it - all fathers side.
I do fear for passing it on too
I’m equally aware of the OCD that runs in my family.
No schizophrenia, but anxiety, depression and severe OCD run in my family strong. The severe OCD is something all my siblings have except one. It’s all the same stuff too usually, though, mine is a bit more intense due to psychosis enhancing it. My great uncle stayed in a mental hospital for a few years due to PTSD from WW2.
Bipolar runs rampant in my family, but I’m the lone schizoaffective one.
I’m not gonna run through all my family members mental health diagnosis’.
BUT, I will say, yes the possibility of passing on SZ/SZA/Bipolar with psychotic features (whatever it is) does cross my mind quite often…
It won’t stop me…
Unless of course, it’s just not meant to happen…
Yes and yes. My great grand mother had it. And I decided not to have kids due to fear of passing it on.
my brother has it, my sister has bipolar, 1 cousin, 60% of the rest of my family has either depression or adhd
You are right to be scared. Both sza and bipolar are very hereditary.
my great grand father had it, also, one of my cousins has it.
I can’t have children, no one will date me, so I’m not worried about passing it along. Yeah it runs in my family, it must because one of my brothers got it a couple years after me. He’s not doing anywhere nearly as well.
It doesn’t run in my family and I don’t have kids. I personally wouldn’t let having it stop you from having children.