What kinds of craziness and psychosis can be passed on - can be contagious?!
Question: For example Narcissism seems to get passed along to your children (though I am not sure there are any genetic reasons for that).
I am asking about relationships - especially bad ones. If someone really traumatizes you in a relationship by raping you, by convincing you that you are impotent or human garbage, is there a chance that you can pass that trauma along to future partners, even if you get healed later on yourself? Please give me some examples if you have heard of anything like this.
Answers: For example Narcissism seems to get passed along to your children (though I am not sure there are any genetic reasons for that).
I am asking about relationships - especially bad ones. If someone really traumatizes you in a relationship by raping you, by convincing you that you are impotent or human garbage, is there a chance that you can pass that trauma along to future partners, even if you get healed later on yourself? Please give me some examples if you have heard of anything like this.
I know from family experience that war traumas are passed on to the family. I am an example and it took at least 15 years of focused Buddhist practice to expunge those devils. Violent environments just enhanced the negative effects. There are the common delusions that create war, such as good-bad portrayals of populations, there is the almost universal delusion of detachment of our lives from each other. There are numerous memes that propagate their way through populations' thought patterns almost like a physical virus. They certainly have powerful effects.
Passed on genetically, sure. But they can't be passed through bodily fluids or anything. It's more like learned helplessness and/or neediness from another person's situation. To someone educated in the "issue" it isn't hard to see through the act and know there is no medical reason for their actions.
it would be genetically impossible to pass mental illness to a child. now a child may learn from a parent a problem and assume it is ok,,, if the child was sent to someone else at birth that was normal the child would be normal. there is nothing genetic about it
yes Zelda. I think it is genetic. I have seen evidence of it in family group meetings. Of course I can't name names under confidentially laws, but you should have followed me around as my friend. They let friends in.
Most mental illnesses have a genetic component to them. In other words there is an increased risk a child can be affected. In a lot of cases there is a genetic disposition but it also takes an enviromental factor to activate it in other cases there seems to be no genetic or enviromental factor involved. No mental illness is contageous.
As far as relationships go, if you are in a relationship where you are abused physically, sexually or mentally you could develope disorders like posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety or any other number of illnesses.
You will not be able to pass these illnesses on to future partners as they are not contageous. If you have children involved they may also be suffering from the same or a simulair condition as a result of the abusive relayionship they were living in with you but again it is not contageous.
A child growing up in a household where abuse of any type exists may have issues with relationships when they become an adult. They may have trust issues, issues with boundaries, borderline personality disorder and may find themselves entering abusive relationships that are typical to what the mother had.
Counseling will help the mother and children to work through these issues so that they will not affect their future relationships or over all emotional well being.