Tag: heredity
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Memory, subjectivity and bipolar research
George Mikes was a Hungarian-born journalist and humorist. Most well-known for his 1946 book “How to be an alien”. This is a comic commentary on the English and their relationship with foreigners. Sometime in the 1980s, I remember a piece he wrote for a Sunday newspaper in which he said (I paraphrase) “I had a…
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Down the line – was my bipolar inherited?
My great grandmother died in the early twentieth century (I’m not exactly sure of the date) but when Grandad was young, maybe eleven or twelve. His step mum preferred girls, so Grandad and his younger brother were sent away to naval boarding school while their sister remained at home. I remember a creased studio photo…