Can mental illness be hereditary?!
Question: Can you give examples?
Answers: Can you give examples?
yes mental illness is hereditary. My grandmother and mother have anxiety problems and my sister and I both have the anxiety problems.
Also my boyfriend suffers from depression, his father does also.
So mental illness is hereditary.
Yes, it can. Schizophrenia is a good example, I have two uncles (brothers), and my own brother that have it.
yes
Psychologists believe that yes, some mental illnesses can be hereditary, as well as the predisposition toward certain mental illnesses and character traits, such as anxiety, biploar disorder, alcoholism/ addictive personaly, and depression.
Yes, everyone in my family has some sort of mental illness.
Dad, Aunts, Uncles, Cousin
Psych Ward and all
Yes I think it is. I really think depression is. It is unknown why and where it occurs. Other conditions are thaught to be also but they have not proved it.
Yes it can. Genetics play a major role in an individual, even their mental health. If you notice, most people who have depression or anxiety have relatives who have the same thing. My aunt has depression and one of her sons had it as well.