Discussion Found out a lot of my ancestors cbt

[sweet_oblivion]

Recently I've been looking into doing an Ancestry family tree but all it seemed to discover is that my ancestors were just as suicidal as I am. Many of them cbt, two of them even off the same bridge. I knew my family was prone to mental illness but had no clue it stretched that far back.
Does anyone else here come from a long line of depressed/mentally ill suicidals?

 

[Ashu]

Long as I know it, damned on both sides.

 

[its-about-time]

Yes. Much of my mom's side of the family were/are either addicted to hard drugs, committed suicide, or both. When you factor in that addiction is often a sign of mental illness, and between the suicides, I'd say there's probably a long history of mental illness on that side of the family.

 

[outrider567]

Recently I've been looking into doing an Ancestry family tree but all it seemed to discover is that my ancestors were just as suicidal as I am. Many of them cbt, two of them even off the same bridge. I knew my family was prone to mental illness but had no clue it stretched that far back.
Does anyone else here come from a long line of depressed/mentally ill suicidals?

Interesting---But not in my family, my father was a genealogist looking up our ancestors back to the 1600's, no history of suicide--I will be the first

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

Had depression on both sides. Uncle CTBed.

 

[Lullaby]

Mental illness runs all throughout on my father's side. My aunts and uncles, then my cousins…all have Depression and/or anxiety. No one I know of has CTB.

Having kids is probably not in my future anyways, but I guess that's for the best. If it's hereditary like that, then I'd be terrified to have a child go through what I'm dealing with.

 

[Shu]

Ancestry shows their cause of death?

 

[sweet_oblivion]

Ancestry shows their cause of death?

Yeah as long as you type in enough information to start with it shows quite a lot of information. Doesn't always show cause of death as sometimes its ambiguous/ can't be found but for most of mine it did.

Mental illness runs all throughout on my father's side. My aunts and uncles, then my cousins…all have Depression and/or anxiety. No one I know of has CTB.

Having kids is probably not in my future anyways, but I guess that's for the best. If it's hereditary like that, then I'd be terrified to have a child go through what I'm dealing with.

I've told myself since I was a teen that I would never have kids if I was still struggling with my mental health, having suffered severe emotional abuse from a depressed suicidal father and then going on to become depressed and suicidal myself really isn't a great combo.

Long as I know it, damned on both sides.

Yeah the way I see it the odds were always stacked up against me