Can mental illness be inherited?

I believe everyone should know more or less about mental illness and the harm it brings to the patient's body. Mental illness not only has a serious impact on the patient himself, but also has a great impact on the patient's family and people around him. If serious mental illness is not well controlled, it may even cause harm to the entire society. But some people are still very worried, could mental illness be hereditary?

1. Mental illness is mainly a neurological disease caused by confusion of mental thinking. When an attack occurs, the patient may be excited and unable to control himself, or fearful, anxious, and emotionally indifferent. There are many types of mental illness. Most of them are related to genetic factors, so mental illness can be inherited. Some of them have been determined to be hereditary diseases through investigation and research, and the inheritance pattern is also very clear, such as: familial Tay-Sachs dementia, phenylketonuria, Huntington's disease, congenital idiocy, hepatolenticular degeneration, schizophrenia, etc.

2. It is currently believed that schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, paranoid psychosis and epileptic mental disorders are all related to genetics. Schizophrenia is the most common mental illness and the disease that poses the greatest threat to human mental health. The heritability of schizophrenia is 80%, which means that genetic factors play a big role in the formation of schizophrenia, while environmental factors play a relatively small role. The incidence rate of relatives of mental patients is significantly higher than that of the general population, and the closer the blood relationship with the patient, the higher the prevalence of schizophrenia.

3. For patients with severe hereditary mental illness, if the risk rate of their offspring suffering from the disease is greater than 10%, birth control is usually recommended. If you want to have children, you should let the children be trained in physique and willpower to create a good environment. You should always pay attention to the children's thoughts and emotions, and enlighten them in time when they encounter unpleasant things, so as not to let them form mental stress. Let the children rest in time, avoid overwork, and do not over-strain the cerebral cortex. If the child has dizziness, headache, insomnia, nightmares, irritability and excitement, he should go to a psychiatric hospital for treatment as soon as possible to avoid the occurrence of mental illness.

Finally, the chance of inheriting mental illness is very high. In order to avoid the inheritance of the disease, the patient's family should take the child to a regular psychiatric hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible to avoid the onset of mental illness. They also need to have a comfortable mentality and not have too much psychological pressure and burden. If you show any signs of mental illness, please go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment in time, and do not leave it alone and delay the treatment.