Late Discovery of Mental Health's Genetic Component

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 17 thought I was the only one in my family but when I turned 20 my grandmother told me it ran in my grandfather side of the family and he heard voices to I wish he was still alive so I could talk to him about it

So are you. I'm sure you could find just as many people who were denied their mental health because of their religion. I'm not saying all Christians, I'm not saying just Christianity does this. But you don't get to sit on the other side of your screen and tell me what I know affected me and other people in a negative way. I'm happy that religion has been a positive experience for you, but that is not always the case.

My family (also Christian) was always very open about mental health struggles in the family. I have two cousins and a second cousin who have bipolar disorder. I was diagnosed schizoaffective in 2016 and have been very open with my family about my mental health struggles and they've all been very supportive. So I guess my answer is I didn't find out late, I knew from a young age that mental health struggles could potentially be in my future based on family history even before I got my own diagnosis.

My husband has bipolar one and after realizing what different symptoms are then I feel that his five siblings sisters all have it too but his two brothers do not but they have other issues. But only my husband and one sibling has properly been diagnosed as having bipolar. People do not like to be honest with themselves and try to understand why their lives are the way they are. But then they criticize others if they try to get help and fix some of the problems they do have. My husband claimed that his dad knew eight languages but after 32 years of being married to my husband I realized that maybe his dad was also bipolar because of other things he had said about him