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Is mental illness hereditary? so the short answer here is yes.
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It is.
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There is some level of genetic link for most mental illnesses.
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A longer answer is yes, but not just hereditary.
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So there is a genetic link.
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For example, if you have a parent who has schizophrenia, you have about a 7 % chance of having it yourself, compared to the 1 % of the general population.
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If you have a parent who has bipolar disorder, you have about a 10 % chance of having it yourself, again, compared to roughly 1 % or 2 % in the general population.
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So there definitely is some level of genetics behind this.
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But it's more like getting a genetic predisposition.
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So you inherit the predisposition.
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And then what happens next, depends on lifestyle and also just other environmental factors.
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So there's been an environmental trigger...