So my Grandfather (who I really liked - as you may or may not remember) was Manic / Depressive. Which was the old, much more descriptive name, for Bi-Polar. Bi-Polar sounds so boring. He was NEVER boring (smiley face)..
And he told me that in studies of the Amish, it is mildly hereditary, male through the mother's line, skipping a generation (yep - that makes it me). Yay.
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Well, one thing I never understood was he didn't always like to take his medicine (Librium?) because "it made him fat." Well, he was fat, so I never understood it..
But time passes, and I am becoming more and more convinced that my Effexor is making me fat. Particularly now that I am on the "generic". I think I want to go back on Prosac, which killed my appetite. I was always, like, stomach quesy on it, but I was thinner.