When is Family History of Mental illness NOT Family History of Mental illness?
Q.I developed Depression about 10 years ago after being attack. I ended up in hospital with internal injuries and have been in 5 times since due to this. I started to develop depression soon after the assault. To summarize, I hate what life and the human race has to offer. I have had a Psychiatrists report prepared for a compensation claim. Here mentions Family history of mental illness and that depression occurs more often in families were other members have had some mental health problems. He was referring to some counseling that my sister had to have a termination. She had this for about one and half year. She has had none since dispite the fact she has had several op's and problems in relation to this. - What statistics are available for Family History and Mental Heath?
A.I don't think that a past history of illness or injury of any sort could be used as an excuse to reduce the liability award in the event af any future incidents. When I was learning how to deal with injury claims when I was starting out as in Insurance underwriter, the general rule was that 'you take your victim as you find him'; eg if you run over two people and each loses a leg, but one of them had already lost a limb at some previous time, then the one now short of two limbs would be quite likely to be awarded more 'damages' than the one now 'only' missing one limb, rather than less. I would expect the same concept to apply to 'mental' injuries. I'd be surprised if things have changed all that much since the early 70s. That could be why your psych mentions a 'family history'; it /strengthens/ any claim for compensation you might make. Just my inexpert opinion, of course. A practicing solicitor would be more likely to know for sure. I welcome the greater availability of 'counselling' services. Anything that helps people to cope in a healthy way with grief or shock or 'shell-shock' or whatever, is probably a good thing. Some people (both practitioners and their clients) might abuse the system - but that doesn't invalidate the general benefits. as far as i know thereare two types of depression: reactive..which happens when a traumatic event occurs and clinical which occurs for no good reason other than chemical imbalance, of course it goes deeper than that..some people suffer from personality disorder causing depression, some people have a naturally low mood...you need to talk to a psychiatrist to find out which is you.... i dont think that insurance companies would count this as a family history of mental illness.....my mum is mentally ill, and so am i, theres a weak link between us, she has clinical depression with psychosis, i have bipolar disorder, i dont think ptsd due to termination counts......unfortunately well do you mean what are you likely to get if family members have it.....schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression
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