Living in a family cluster of personality disorders and schizophrenia

[Edie]

Everyone in my immediate family has a personality disorder.  Mom and brother are both NPD; well not entirely sure what he's got but he's a convicted felon with 10 years in penitentiary, flunked out of 4th grade, never finished high school, always fascinated with doing bad things, breaking the law.  He likes sneaking around and doing illegal stuff. He's always lived a high risk life. He is super abusive with his girlfriends but mostly he rages and rages when something minor doesn't go his way. He's arrogant and extremely thin skinned and just an all around ugly person.  He's my mom's golden child and he can do no wrong in her eyes. My daughter has Borderline Personality Disorder which has been biologically linked to NPD. My mom had a brother with schizophrenia.  I think all this mental illness is genetic.  I inherited my fathers happy, healthy brain and somehow I survived horrific abuse at the hands of my mother. Out of all the people mentioned I was the severely abused one yet I'm the one who didn't develop a personality disorder.  Its genetic!