-> Neither is necessarily genetic.  One school on bipolar believes that there
-> is a direct connection to childhood sexual abuse.  After reading some of
-> the materials written by posters in Fido and in this echo that have
-> identified themselves as bipolar I find that to be believable.

-> When you look at the bipolar behavior as being normal for the bipolar
-> victim and sexual deviation as normal by the sexually abused child, 
   
Disassociative Personality Disorder ( once called Multiple Personality
Disorder) is often caused by sexual abuse such as incest.

-> the
-> child of a bipolar becomes the victim of the parent.  Bipolar is passed
-> from parent to child by behavior not genes.

Bipolar condition is largely thought to be genetic in nature
as it does tend to run in families.

My sister is a clinical psychologist and has an extensive library
which makes for interesting reading.

I believe one book she has to be of particular interest to you
as it has quite a bit of bearing on you, it's called "Toxic People."
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