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My mother and my grandmother are suffering from psychiatric disorder. I am also having certain psychiatric disorder like anxiety .Is it genetic. Can this disorder be eliminated permanently through medicines. Could my wife and my children will suffer from these disorder. I am not married yet.
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Yes Anxiety can run in families, you can get them effectively treated. For the present it cannot be eliminated permanently but can be contained like Diabetes. In future it might be possible
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Genetics do play a role in psychiatric illness. Your wife cannot suffer and children may maynot get the character transmitted. Anxiety can be well controlled with meditation and yoga and some simples drugs.
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