bipolar genetic statistics
What do you get when you cross a depressed person with a bipolar person?
What are the statistics, odds, or percentages?
Is the bipolar depression so similar to unipolar or regular depression it means like 3 or 4 out of 4 out of our future children will get depression? Or are they so different and each has such different genetic coding that it means the possiblitily is not as high as that and that there is an equal chance but higher chance because it does run in our children's family?
Depression has a genetic component, but the "nurture" side of the equation is just as important. Just because there is a family history of depression does not mean that your children are destined to become depressed.
Psychiatric View - The Facts About Bipolar Disorder From A Different Perspective…
The distinguishing characteristic of Bipolar Disorder, as compared to other mood disorders, is the presence of at least one manic episode. Additionally, it is presumed to be a chronic condition because the vast majority of individuals who have one manic episode have additional episodes in the future. The statistics suggest that four episodes in ten years is an average, without preventative treatment. Every individual with bipolar disorder has a unique pattern of mood cycles, combining depression and manic episodes that is specific to that individual, but predictable once the pattern is identified.
Research studies suggest a strong genetic influence in bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder typically begins in adolescence or early adulthood and continues throughout life. It is often not recognized as a psychological problem, because it is episodic. Consequently, those who have it may suffer needlessly for years without treatment.
After man years of study and research b many specialists and professionals, it has been confirmed that bipolar disorder or manic depression is hereditary or in other words, it runs in the family. To be precise, it is biological in nature.
As per the result of a study which was posted in the American journal on psychiatry in the year 2000, people who are affected with bipolar disorder have thirty percent of brain cells which actually send signals which is the reason for their illness. These extra cells are the root cause for the peculiar way in which the affected people react and that is the reason for their ailment.
According to people who have researched in this subject, these are the cells which regulates a person’s mood and how he reacts to a situation and also enables other cognitive functions. These extra cells cause a kind of congestion in the brain leading to bizarre passage of signals which in turn results in a person to reach either a high or a low. However, it is still not found as to why the affected people have an excess of such kinds of cell. To know more about them more extensive and complex study of the genes would be necessary.
Other than the brain cells and brain chemistry, certain genes are also considered to be the reason behind the onset of such an ailment. These genes may pass within the family from one generation to another. The circadian genes which are supposed to be related with the control of hormones, heart activity, blood pressure and mood swings is being linked with bipolar depression. It is believed that the absence of this gene is responsible for a person having manic depression.
To sum it all up, we can say that more extensive and detailed researches have to be carried out by professionals, doctors and therapists so that they can learn more about the illness and come up with bigger and better ways of treating it. Though there are medications available to treat this, it has a lot of side effects too. Hence, better treatments with lesser side-effects have to be devised as early as possible.
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