What are the chances

[Jester20]

Of a child inheriting BPD.
My husband had BPD, his father had bipolar and alcohol abuse
My brother has schizophrenia and my father depression.

I need to seriously hint about the chances of any offspring having issues. Does snooze know where yo get stats from?

[SamwizeGamgee]

Concerning the heritability of mental illness, you get behavior from nature and nurture.  Genetics and environment.  You usually get both from your parents. So, odds are good that something will go amiss with dysfunctional parents' offspring. 

Fortunately, humans have an uncanny knack for overcoming both genetics and environment, so there is always hope.

[ArleighBurke]

I havnt read a good answer on BPD yet. We are told it is not our fault, but we are also told it may be caused by an invalidating childhood. My wife has BPD, and I think there's a good chance my daughters may develop it too - based on their moods and behaviours I've seen so far. Is that from having an invalidating mum? Am *I* invalidating? I'm not sure.

If the human brain can be a mix of logical and emotional, I think BPDs are just soo emotional that it squashes their logical side. And this is probably a genetic thing. Good parenting may prevent "BPD" by giving kids good tools to step back, take a time out, breathe etc. Just my guess.