Is there a relationship between ADHD and autism? What about bipolar manic depression? I have heard that all of them have some genetic basis, but the shocking increase in ADHD cases makes me wonder about environmental factors. Also, what exactly is the relationship to hereditary dopamine deficiency?
Just to clarify for those who aren’t aware, ADHD is not simply a child’s disease. It affects millions of adults. The symptoms may include difficulty concentrating on sustained tasks, poor time management, distractibility, forgetfulness, and cluttering.
Of course, there are bound to be epigenetic factors, but if the disorder is indeed hereditary then those without the genetic basis who are exposed to the same environmental factors (food additives, pollution, vaccines, or whatever) should not develop the disease. I should have clarified that.

I have terrible anxioty, and it goes so far beyond that. I love my mother so so much. She has rasied my sister and I all by herself, since we were very small. And for some reason, I get these thoughts of something bad happening to her. Something that will take her out of my life forever. I hate having these thoughts. I feel like voices are speaking to me sometimes… All at the same time. These voices, and the thought of something bad happening to my mother. All of those thoughts go through my head at the same time, and I get so afraid. I have panic attacks. The last one was August 21st. (my mother’s birthday) I was thinking about if I ever lost her. I hate HATE thinking like that. Sometimes, I want to turn off my mind, so that nothing is going through it. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I know that it isn’t normal. I wish that there was a medicine that I could take to ease my thoughts. To stop the bad thoughts running in my head. Maybe it’s something hereditary? My father is Bipolar 1, and a boarderline schizophrenic. My cousin (from his side of the family), is a schizophrenic. I am so sick of being so afraid, and paranoid all of the time. It has gotten so bad, I think I may have develeped OCD.

For example, crums. If there are crums on the counter, even two. I freak out, and go on a cleaning rampage. I am SO afraid that even those two crums will attract cockroaches. Oh my gosh….. I am terrified of them. I had a panic attack the other month when I saw one. Then I went on a cleaning rampage in my bedroom. Then, there’s the trashcan. I don’t even really open it with my hand anymore, I do it with my foot. And if I touch the trash can (even with a paper towel) I have to wash my hands.. every single time.

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And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?

That appears like it would be more detrimental to the individuals who actually really do want to receive treatment. How come people who work in mental health do not make more effort to become familiar with the DSM?
Dissociative Identitiy Disorder
Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID.
Symptoms

* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don’t remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation is common
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years
* Depressive symptoms
* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)
* Conduct problems (in childhood)
Well, the only problem is when the parents blame the child. When really the parent is the one with the problems.

For a while, i’m 14 this has been going on since i was 9 or 10,
i nearly always have something on my mind. it takes me forever to fall asleep-if i can, because all i think about is how one day i’m going to be rich and have everything nice and since i’ve gone through so much crap in my life that if i work hard i’ll be rewarded. i feel like i have something special that could make me…don’t laugh. i think i could possibly be like a singer or something? doesn’t everyone do that tho…
once when i was in 5th grade i didn’t want to go to school so sunday after i got home from a party i sat in my closet and cried nonstop for like …hours. i couldn’t stop. no matter what, if i thought about something even off subject of why i was crying (which i couldn’t rememberin the first place) i would burst into tears again.
i have anger management problems, and i hate sharing. anything, i just hate to share. i think so much, and get so nervous i almost throw up a lot. people made a game out of looking at me and watching me blush.
i get so sad and cry sometimes (not too often) just, so bad that my heart and head hurts and i just want to die and wish i were never born to begin with.
i feel that way now. ***my dad was bi-polar. is it hereditary? my mom and her entire half of the family suffer from depression. my dad did too, i haven’t ever seen a doctor for reasons like this. please help me i will be so grateful.
also i get pissed off so easily and even if i’m friends for someone forever, they do one stupid thing that was nothing and i can drop them like that. it takes me a day or two to get over it and i don’t care anymore, people don’t matter much to me unless it’s my mom or sister.
sometimes i wish i would die because i think so much and nothing ever gets done and i feel like nothing ever will and ill just be trapped in my head worrying forever. it sucks, to feel like that. i’ve had times where i get SO worried about someone killing me or dying someday that i hate everything because i was born and have to suffer a life and have to die someday. i don’t want to die. time moves too fast to me too. everything cancels out everything else i’m not sure how i feel about anything apparently it’s so …ugh.

I have mixed feelings about this and am curious how you feel about it. For example, what if religiosity is genetic? Would that be similar to the sort of asking for trouble you’d get if you mated with someone with severe bipolar disorder or other hereditary disease? Hopefully it isn’t, but it’s been something that’s bothering me lately because it’s damn hard to find a cute Atheist woman around here. Granted, maybe I need to move, but for the sake of argument, let’s say I’m not able to move for a while due to a poor job market lately. So then I meet this nice… let’s make it more extreme… Mormon or Catholic – take your pick – that’s a devout in their beliefs. Has anyone done something like that and managed to retain their sanity AND their marriage? Were the kids ok?
Stanley, are you completely ignorant?
Do you date ugly people because you like beautiful people?
Are all Atheists going to heaven?
What part of religion insists on not discriminating???
What part of dating, marriage, and childbearing insists that we make no exception about any part of the beliefs or character of our date or spouse?
Furthermore, give me convincing evidence that “sincere religious belief” is not schizophrenia, which is a genetic disorder.
Or are you even offended that I might suggest that discrimination on who you date based on psychological disorder is also morally repugnant?
Show me you place yourself on the path of hell on earth first before you get on your high horse again, ok?
Speaking of people making references to Hitler, this is my personal dating life you are attempting to command, not some social engineering project. If you INSIST that I date according to your doctrine, then I sincerely request that you demonstrate such foolishness in your own behavior first: marry someone that hates you and tells you that you will be going to hell for your beliefs.
Do that first, then come back to me.

Sheesh. Morons.
A number of good points were made, although I’d point out that bipolar disorder tends to skip generations and schizophrenia is genetic and involves a tendency to hear voices that aren’t there and hold illogical beliefs.

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I heard that it was hereditary and
My grandmother[68], my mom[42], my sister[25], and I[14] all have huge mood swings
[at all times of the month, don't even go there]
My grandmother my sister and I all have overdosed
The hospital I went to diagnosed me for depression, and I refused to take medication, and made my dad tell them to not allow me to take it.
I don’t really believe in this stuff, but when I look further into it it seems like I do have it

My highs I can make everyone around me smile and I’m ecstatic
My lows I start screaming and crying and making everyone mad, ruining friendships.

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I get bad mood swings all the time, so I doubt it’s related to PMS.
I’ll get really annoyed at the littlest things and feel like hurling things at something tapping their foot, but once they stop my anger will go away and I’ll be calm, sometimes happy if I was talking to someone like a friend.
When I’m under stress, I get really pissed off. Like, recently, I was driving in a city with my mom (we live in town, this was relatively new since I just got my learners about a year ago) and she kept nagging me to the point where I broke down and started crying behing the wheel, because I couldn’t handle it; it was hard.
When we pulled into the parking lot of a store, I was angry. By the time we got into the store, I felt very, very sad and wasn’t talking much, but later was fine.. content.
Most of the time I can control my emotions and my mood but sometimes I don’t even notice it until someone tells me to calm down..
One of my friends suggested that I might be bi-polar. Is this a hereditary thing? Or are my moods just part of the way I am, so to say? Also, what are signs of bi-polar (disorder?)?
I might not be bi-polar, but I would like some answers so I know how to explain to people about my mood swings and appologize properly..

Is there any website with a test to take or a quiz…or just questions and if I score whatever or out of whatever that means I am? My father is manic depressive..and I know bipolar disorder can be hereditary…I duno, I can’t really list symptoms because it varies sometimes I just cry and cry and I feel like I want to hurt myself or commit suicide…Like…sometimes I want to hurt the people I love too. Sometimes I get feelings of worthlessness. I duno what to do, I don’t want to speak with my parents about this though. I’m also very to myself- I trust maybe 1-3 people. I haven’t really told anyone about this though, only my boyfriend about how I might be bipolar.

I know that that there are other factors involved in mental disorders, but knowing that you could possibly pass it on to your children, would you still choose to have kids? This is just something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately because I would LOVE to have children, but I am afraid that my child might end up with bipolar disorder, and I would feel terrible.

I was adopted from birth, but my biological mother was actually planning on having an abortion with me (mistake) until she met my mother. There are plenty of days when I get so frustrated with dealing with this & I get angry at 1. not being wanted in the first place & 2. not only did she not want me, but she allowed me to come into this world with a chance of me having this condition.

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my mum is bipolar and feels that I am having the same patterns as her, she even got me to see a psychologist and i have tablets for my panic attacks, its making me worried, she ended up sectioned and i would never want my children to see that