I wonder if anyone can offer any suggestions for this. I'll be as brief as possible.
My mother's sister - my Aunt A, suffered various vague mental health problems and then had a severe nervous breakdown. (I apologise in advance if I use outdated terminology, I'm not sure what various conditions are called nowadays. Aunt A's son - my cousin B, is a paranoid schitzophrenic, who lives in a room in his brother's house, but is unable to go out into the world.
My mother's brother - my Uncle C, suffered crippling social anxiety, which the family called his 'shyness'. Uncle C's son - my cousin D, was sectioned several times, also with paranoid schitzophrenia, and eventually killed himself in a secure mental institution.
I've been battling terrible anxiety around leaving the house for around 10 years now, and it's nearly cost me my marriage - cancelling events at the last minute, getting to the front door and having to come back, only being able to sit in aisle seats in cinemas and theatres (and that's me now at a much better state, at one time I wouldn't even have been able to go to the cinema or theatre).
My question is this - all these close family members suffering these conditions - can it really "run in the family" or is it just a big unfortunate co-incidence?
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Genetic disposition - or just co-incidence?
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RegTheMonkey1 · 05/08/2014 12:26
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