I believe true insanity is a disease and would be inherited. But, not too many years ago people were "put away" for many reasons that would be treatable or understood today. Faye -----Original Message----- From: ConPutnam@aol.com <ConPutnam@aol.com> To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 5:57 PM Subject: [HODGES-L] Insanity Question.... >Wondering....? The brother of my maternal g-grandfather ended up in insane >institution. Haven't done any research on insanity per se [yet] and there >seem to be no other known instances in this family line...[that's not to say >that I don't have my share of crazy relatives]....Has anyone done any >research on the genetics of this? Is it primarily considered environmental >and stress related.....or are there several types of insanity and multiple >causal factors? Guess I'm not asking a simple yes or no type question, but >perhaps someone out there has some references for the layperson to peruse? >Thanks for suggestions......connie > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm >New threaded Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > >