How many of you have any of the traits listed below in your family, specifically in the past 2-3 generations….?

Mental Illness: depression, bipolar, manic depressive, etc….Suicidal Tendancies

Alcoholism or Drug Addiction of some type: whether they be street drugs, prescriptions, etc….

Felons or Close family that has done time in prison or jail….

Been a victim of domestic violence: note, this does not only include physical, but mental, emotional,financial….

As i said before, i am asking out of curiosity, not to use against anyone else…for i actually fit into most that i have listed myself….

If you do answer this question honestly, please list your religious or spiritual affiliation….As usual, no bashing….and i hope that i have not offended anyone by asking such a thing…

Blessings to all
)o( Trinity

And please let me add, that it is only by my spiritual path that i have been able to overcome so many of these, thus breaking the cycle….
Thank you all for being so gracious as to answer…no, i had no intention of posting any type of statistics or results….only letting others know that they are not alone, and once the spiritual condition is cured in the individual, the mental and the physical seems to follow.

As for my friend with the daughter in counseling, i wish you strength, and patience….self mutilation is a way of releasing inner pain that one cannot seem to release in a normal and or appropriate manner, it is actions of this nature which lead to more dangerous addictions and drugs…to numb the pain. I am only saying this because i have been there…You are doing the right thing by keeping her in counseling. I truely hope this works…

I would like to mention though, that addictions, alcoholism, etc…all of these do not effect just the individual, but the entire family unit.
Therefore, we probably all need to be in counseling of some type it would appear!

Blessings to you all!