No MS in the family. But we also have found that the bipolar is really just another symptom of a complex problem that is in our family. We have other autoimmune issues involving the gut, nutrition, mitochondrial function and sleep and with neurological manifestations.

In our opinion it is all one and the same. We found that by helping the symptoms manifesting in other parts of the body, the psychiatric symptoms in the brain were helped as well (even though they had been diagnosed separately as mental illnesses).

To us, the categorization into bipolar or other mental type illnesses did not elucidate the pathology. It merely obfuscated it. It was yet another diagnosis when it should have just been seen as a symptom of something else, even if at the time, the doctors did not know what that was.

There are some interesting information around such as http://www.bipolarchild.com , http://www.itsnotmental.com , http://www.bpkids.org and a host of autism sites that actually may have a lot of information you can use to help your child's biological issues.