Thread Topic: Will You Not Have Kids Due to Your Psychological Disorder?
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disorderguy
Joined: May 5, '09
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2009-09-29 09:44:15 |
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MSNBC ran a story on this topic recently. A number of mental health problems are believed to have a genetic component and may be passed from parents to their children. If you are bipolar, for instance, your children will have above-average odds to be develop bipolar as well. A survey of people with a family history of bipolar found that 35% have considered or decided to not have children. Clearly when you are suffering the devastating effects of a mental illness, you would not want to bring someone else into the world who will suffer in the same way. However, MSNBC notes that many people overestimate the genetic component. Based on this faulty belief, they are less likely to have children. Schizophrenia and bipolar have a 10% change of being passed on. Here is a question to the forum: if there is a 10% chance your mental illness will be passed on to your children, how would this effect your decision to reproduce? What level of risk would you personally find acceptable? And does it depend on the disorder or the potential for treatment? |
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Unanswered Thread: my test results posted by darron46 9 hours ago |
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wowu
Joined: Sep 30, '09
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2009-09-30 12:31:00 |
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First of all - bipolar and schizophrenia are mental illnesses but disorders seem to be other thing than that. And we shouldn't forget about the other factors. If I got personality disorder and I work on it - I learn how me previous life inflicted my problems. And many disorders are caused because some bad relations with parents and bad experiences with other people. If I start thinking about it - I may be more aware about my children so they could be healthy both physically and mentally. However it is hard to say what would be my decision. Mind that some philosophers said that this life is the worst thing what we have and the only thing we got in the same time. So deciding not to have children is very immoral - condemning them to all the suffering connected with seeking love, acceptance, their own place in life and finally dealing with their physical death. Assuming I can't see why this people make the decision not to have children. Maybe it is connected with how do they see life - as a thing with a very low value. |
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ArX
Joined: Sep 19, '09
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2009-09-30 13:09:42 |
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I think it is safe to say that with my withdrawn, more or less Schizoid personality there are not going to be any no children in my future... |
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Hip
Joined: Aug 10, '09
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2009-09-30 18:40:14 |
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Being aware how sociopathic and f---ed up the world is on an unimaginable level, I am not bringing another kid in it so his/her initial playful and happy disposition can be shattered once they grow up and realize they have to start being an aggressive selfish prick like everybody else because its the only way to succeed in this f---ed up, sick country. Not to mention if some lardass school psychiatrist gives himself the liberty to label my kid with ADHD or whatever, prescribes him something strong that I refuse to administer him. Then social services will take my kid away on the grounds that I am neglecting his mental health and later I'll find out that he breathed his last breath on a stretcher while in foster care because of the meds... If I were to commit the ultimate crime, it would be forcing another kid to live in this hell. Me having a personality disorder or any supposed mental imbalance has nothing to do with it. |
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Alaycat
Joined: Oct 5, '09
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2009-10-05 23:20:18 |
| Knowing now that im in need of alot of work, probaly not. however I already have a child. Im not saying I would have never had kids, i just would have worked out alot of my problems first. | |
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elisafauzana
Joined: Aug 27, '09
Status: Senior User |
2009-10-20 22:39:15 |
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i was not planning to get pregnant in the first place when i had my son. though having him is the best thing ever happened in my life, i was never ready for my second child. not because the gene thing n stuff, but as bpd, i always feel i am not a good mother, eventhough my son adores me. i had lots of problems hitting me from time to time. i just couldn't decide n settle down n was just floating n wandering aimlessly, though i know i have to settle down for the sake of my son. a lot of things happened in between and now after 7 years, i am ready to have my second child. because i feel i have discovered the source of my problem, i kinda fix it(though not fully done, partly fixed, partly i just leave it coz i can't fix anymore) and i will never come near to the source again-it's my mother. like wowu has highlighted, bipolar n schizophrenia are mental illness. while disorders are slighty diffrent. correct me if i am wrong, but disorders are not really in the genes. it is something acquire through bad things happen around us since our childhood. |
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