Comments on: Scientists See the Foreshadowing of Depression in Brain Anatomy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/25/brain-scans-may-be-able-to-predict-depression-risk/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: lyllyth http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/25/brain-scans-may-be-able-to-predict-depression-risk/#comment-6853 lyllyth Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:09:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/25/brain-scans-may-be-able-to-predict-depression-risk/#comment-6853 I can say from firsthand experience, that growing up with messed up parents can indeed alter the environment you think of as "normal". This in conjunction with the study that child abuse leaves marks DNA for alterations ( http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/061/?searchterm=abuse%20brain ) leads me to my conjecture that mental illness is the result of a combination of unique stressors, poor family behavioral skills and teachings, genetic predispositions (and aftereffects), and socio-economic factors (I do not say status, I say factors). It may in fact be a multi-generational example of positive feedback. Grandpa beats Mother as a child, her reward and emotional interpretive circuitry is conditioned to neurosis...Mother then has Child, who learns neurotic patterns of communication and coping...This Child may then grow up to have a Grandchild they cannot handle, and either beat or medicate into submission. Four generations, and the cycle continues. We must be truly tackle mental illness on a family, community, and society level. You cannot treat individuals in isolation. Family behavioral dynamics are TOO IMPORTANT to continue to dismiss. Medicating individuals in families stifles symptoms, it does not solve the dynamic cognitive-behavioral problems. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028151.900-bipolar-kids-victims-of-the-madness-industry.html?full=true http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/744004?src=cmemp The two articles above are directly relevant to my personal experience. My mother's family has Bipolar and OCD as documented running through it, and I strongly suspect she is an undiagnosed moderate Borderline. As a teenager, I was the one sent to therapy and drug trialled, until the consensus was, there was nothing terribly abnormal with me. But for a few years I seriously doubted my sanity, and believed the labels the adults threw on me. Even to this day I am not sure where genetics end and learning begins; this is an age-old debate in psychiatry and psychology, anyhow. My theory is that in the following decades, we will find that they truly are interlinked, synergistic. A toast to more good research. Cheers! I can say from firsthand experience, that growing up with messed up parents can indeed alter the environment you think of as “normal”. This in conjunction with the study that child abuse leaves marks DNA for alterations ( http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/061/?searchterm=abuse%20brain ) leads me to my conjecture that mental illness is the result of a combination of unique stressors, poor family behavioral skills and teachings, genetic predispositions (and aftereffects), and socio-economic factors (I do not say status, I say factors). It may in fact be a multi-generational example of positive feedback. Grandpa beats Mother as a child, her reward and emotional interpretive circuitry is conditioned to neurosis…Mother then has Child, who learns neurotic patterns of communication and coping…This Child may then grow up to have a Grandchild they cannot handle, and either beat or medicate into submission. Four generations, and the cycle continues.

We must be truly tackle mental illness on a family, community, and society level.
You cannot treat individuals in isolation. Family behavioral dynamics are TOO IMPORTANT to continue to dismiss. Medicating individuals in families stifles symptoms, it does not solve the dynamic cognitive-behavioral problems.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028151.900-bipolar-kids-victims-of-the-madness-industry.html?full=true

http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/744004?src=cmemp

The two articles above are directly relevant to my personal experience. My mother’s family has Bipolar and OCD as documented running through it, and I strongly suspect she is an undiagnosed moderate Borderline.

As a teenager, I was the one sent to therapy and drug trialled, until the consensus was, there was nothing terribly abnormal with me. But for a few years I seriously doubted my sanity, and believed the labels the adults threw on me. Even to this day I am not sure where genetics end and learning begins; this is an age-old debate in psychiatry and psychology, anyhow.

My theory is that in the following decades, we will find that they truly are interlinked, synergistic.

A toast to more good research. Cheers!

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