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Sarah got pregnant, she was most worried that she would have a child who was
bipolar. Before deciding what to do (have the baby? get married? abort?), she
went to a genetic counselor. Because all the bipolar people in her family were
men, she wondered if it would matter if she had a boy or a girl. The counselor
told her that it didn’t matter; that a girl would be just as likely/unlikely to
inherit this; that maybe the reason only men in her family were bipolar was a
mixture of nature/nurture. Or maybe it was just chance.
Sounds like the counsellor was as helpful as counsellors often are. (Don't you like my spelling of counsellor?)
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