I come from a white/Asian family, with a mixed mother. She has blood clotting problems and doctors have never been able to explain why her blood always clots if she isn't on a blood thinner. All they've said is it's probably an autoimmune problem.

She has four kids (well, five, but one is a half sibling and we know nothing about her). Of the four of us, I have psoriasis, my sister has fibromyalgia, and one of my brothers has severe gut and skin problems with chronic inflammation. The other brother I don't know well enough to know about his health conditions.

All of these are likely autoimmune problems.

Also, my mother is schizophrenic, and we offspring of hers all have serious mental problems. I've been diagnosed as bipolar, my sister has been diagnosed as bipolar, and my brother has some serious depression and anxiety. We also all have psychotic sort of problems too, though keep those on the down low with mental health people, so maybe we're all schizos or will develop into that. (Our mother was diagnosed as bipolar for decades, with psychosis too, but for the last decade or so has been diagnosed just as schizophrenic, and she no longer has many mood swings. So it's like her bipolar developed into schizophrenia, and I'm not convinced these are really two different disorders.)

Well, there's evidence that schizophrenia is linked to autoimmune problems. The immune system seems to start attacking the brain in many schizophrenia cases.

So, I'm wondering, does anyone else have experience or knowledge about this stuff? Do you know if race mixing causes autoimmune disorders and, in turn, psychotic disorders?

The whole picture seems to be coming together lately as I study this stuff and have put together the fact that all our conditions are likely autoimmune in nature and would come from our mother.