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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Well with genetic conditions like that you can get yourself tested and most of the time they end up skipping a generation. .
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My mother had endometriosis before I was born. She genuinely wanted a child, and they told her that she could never have one. I was essentially a "miracle" in her terms (my sister followed 5yrs later) but where there's a will in biology, there's a way. She continued to have a lot of problems with her reproductive organs. She had a tubal litigation after my sister was born (but had to fight for it for some stupid reason - they thought she'd change her mind or some other ridiculous nonsense) and a full hysterectomy when I was about 15. She had a lot of cysts and some other horrible things going on, so that was her only choice to make the pain stop forever.
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Originally Posted by Vanilla
That's great advice. It's just the depression thing has hit every generation of my family, my aunty nearly attempted suicide.
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Mental illness has run like crazy on both sides of my family (and in Ki's). Another reason I've chosen not to procreate is because I don't want to subject an innocent child to the possibilities of depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and even schizophrenia. I suffer so much as a prisoner of my own mind and the stupid chemical problems it has that it would tear me down to give that to another life form. I could literally never forgive myself.