Children and teens who have a parent with bipolar disorder are 14 times more likely than their peers to have bipolar-like symptoms themselves, and are two to three times more likely to be found to ...

I believe I’ve learned to be more forgiving than most adult children in my position, which most likely stems from my own experience with bipolar disorder. If you’re a parent with bipolar ...

Jagdish had no significant medical conditions. But like most bipolar patients, he had a genetic history of mental health ...

Is bipolar disorder hereditary? A hereditary disease is one that can be passed on through genetic material, like from a parent to one of their children. For some hereditary diseases, like one type ...

Isolation can occur during depressive episodes when you might withdraw from others or even during manic episodes when ...

First, they found that children of bipolar parents (experimental group) were significantly more likely to merit a psychiatric diagnosis (16 of 31) than were children of controls (1 of 18).

Psychosis, which may occur with bipolar disorder, can also impair your ability to know what’s real and what isn’t, added Kennedy. Your partner, parent, or best friend can pick up on these red ...

A 2012 Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience found that people who have a first-degree relative (a parent, sibling, or child) with bipolar disorder have a 15% to 35% greater risk of developing the ...