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Is there a link between bipolar disorder and religious hallucinations?

  • 11-07-2008 10:50PM
    #1
    amz5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭


    I know that I read somewhere that there was a link between bipolar disorder and religious hallucinations of a visual or auditory nature. I can't find anything about it on the net now, does anyone know where I could get some information on this topic?

    (Also as an additional aside - I know that bipolar is genetic. If a mother or father is bipolar would it be common for many of the children to inherit the illness, or would it be unlikely that more than one would inherit it? If more than one could inherit it, would it be likely or unlikely that more than half of the children in a family would be effected by depression/bipolar disorder?)


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  • #2
    mattyboy20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭mattyboy20


    Religious hallucinations would more likely have to do with schizophrenia rather than bipolar disorder. Bipolar can skip a generation and resurface in grandchildren. However it is highly unlikely that half of a family would inherit the condition. Hope this helps. :)


  • #3
    amz5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭amz5


    Wow, really! Thanks a million


  • #4
    Tupins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭Tupins


    I've read that Bi-polar disorder is not strictly genetic as in how some other illnesses are but more that a person MAY be genetically more pre-disposed to the disorder than those without a family history of it. However, it's also thought that it would be a combination of both genetic and environmental factors that would trigger it in the first place.

    By that reasoning I would say it's unlikely that all children of a person who is bi-polar would show symptoms unless there were unusually stressful circumstances in the houshold plus they had also inherited a particular gene.

    I'm not an expert, that's just my opinion.


  • #5
    Flamed Diving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,609 ✭✭✭Flamed Diving


    Interesting. I have Bipolar and I am unsure whether it would be right for me to have children one day. I guess I should do a bit more research before I make any firm decision.


  • #6
    Doghouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭Doghouse


    Some forms of epilepsy are particularly associated with religious hallucinations.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrainqa.shtml


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  • #7
    Cinful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭Cinful


    Bi-polar is mood disorder. DSM IV shows no connection with hallucinations.


  • #8
    spottedfrog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭spottedfrog


    Flamed Diving wrote: »
    Interesting. I have Bipolar and I am unsure whether it would be right for me to have children one day. I guess I should do a bit more research before I make any firm decision.


    I think you have the right idea. Don't have any children. We are overpopulated as it is, so why not leave baby making to other enthusiastic individuals with no health problems. I am relatively certain that I shall attempt to not bear any children, and adopt if I really desire a child. I'm just trying to make a small contribution by not contributing to the population problem. Imagine if others did that too! We would have significantly more resources.


  • #9
    Flamed Diving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,609 ✭✭✭Flamed Diving


    spottedfrog wrote: »
    I think you have the right idea. Don't have any children. We are overpopulated as it is, so why not leave baby making to other enthusiastic individuals with no health problems. I am relatively certain that I shall attempt to not bear any children, and adopt if I really desire a child. I'm just trying to make a small contribution by not contributing to the population problem. Imagine if others did that too! We would have significantly more resources.

    Is that you, Thomas Malthus?


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