Well I would consider that another red flag, honestly. As far as an emotionally controlling and abusive parent.
Yeah, Anna should go to therapy and get another diagnosis. We can’t really help her here if she can’t help herself. The best we can do is show her support, and that’s all we’ve been doing these last months.
I understand. I just wanted to chime in, because I can relate to her in some ways. I still tend to flounder a lot before working up the guts to try to help myself, everything always "feels"impossible, and it is easy to make excuses, too, out of fear of trying.
Oh no, you did good chiming in. I feel I can’t help her and it frustrates me. Therapy would do her so much good, not psychoanalysis but something like CBT.
There are some free CBT/DBT exercises online I have found.
Here is an example page: Simple DBT Mindfulness Exercises for Anxiety
(For anyone who wants to try it.)
They are a decent gauge for me. Sometimes trying to do them makes me extremely pissed off, which is one way I can determine if I am just pissed in general as opposed to really responding to something specific.
Turnip, it’s his aunt, but they still have 1/4 of shared genes. There are risks.
Thank you anyway. It seems that I might be worrying too much. I am just sooo intolerant to risks. It is always with me afraid of risking.
I am glad to hear about your brother. And that his success makes you happy as well 
Anna10, unlike kind people here that have been giving you advice (which seemed very reasonable to me) I do not have much knowledge of mental disease. But I would like to tell you some comforting words of support. Do not give up, believe in yourself. You are needed in this world, and the better time will come. You have made a step of getting out of your seclusion by signing up for this website. That might be a start. 
Or maybe you are trying to come up with reasons not to have kids, because the risk here is so slight, that there are plenty of other risks on the same scale that you’re not even considering it seems. But it seems like this is something you can hone in on and point to. Have you considered the possibility that maybe this obsessive level of worrying, is masking something like that? Because it seems that no matter what anyone hear tells you, it doesn’t change your perspective or how you feel about it. Plus this is a kind of weird place for you to be seeking information on the statistical risk of inheriting a mental illness, especially since proper research would have shown you that it’s still largely a mystery and considered to be a combination of genes and environment, and that even with the genes, there is still no way to predict when it will crop up in a blood line, and then who else will get it. Just gives the overall impression that this isn’t really about the schizophrenia, and more about your overall anxiety about things going wrong if you have kids. There’s nothing wrong with that, either.
My family is riddled with MI. I have an uncle confirmed sz, I have sz, and my son has sz. I wouldn’t purposely have given this to my son, I wish he didn’t have it, but he’s still beautiful, intelligent, and an absolute blessing. Having said that, he does not intend to have children and I do feel some relief about that.
No one in my family has mental illness, of any sort. In fact not only am i the only one with sz but i have been the black sheep in the family since birth basically. Worst student, worst money-maker and no social life since i turned 10 years old. My brothers are both good earning men, who have had a great many friends, girlfriends and job opportunities. One is married, build a house and has kids. The other one is going to marry soon and is looking to build a house very soon also. While i sit at home living off of social security with no friends, no work, no school… no problems, i guess…
actually i did find a job this month, but these assholes act as if they keep forgetting about me. even though ive phoned them 5 times and talked to them in person. when you talk in person they are as if youre the perfect choice but then after a week they dont even call you. fucking assholes. only because of this schizophrenia they turned me down.
I’m dx’ed schizoaffective, and I have no relatives who have had that disease. I’ve had one great aunt who was depressed and a distant uncle - once or twice removed, something like that, who was an alcoholic. I said this often, but one way I’ve heard it put is that heredity loads the gun, and the environment pulls the trigger. I don’t know how accurate that is in my case because I have no relatives who were schizophrenic. I guess I was the wild card.
The rate of schizophrenia development has been fairly stable for a long time, I’m pretty sure. It was cited as evidence against hallucinogen use being a cause as opposed to a symptom
rwallyt hank you to all of this…ive grown already in some way. I know I cant go further like this in this life…and I try to be a better one…yes,the negative enrgy drains the positive one…my mother is not so bad but she probably cant take good care of me.bu that’s life…ive never been told that I am loved by my father…they wanted from me only good notes,ive never heard from my parents that I am beautiful but probably I was a strange kid also…
take care.and love will tear us apart I think,yes
I was so worried I would pass this curse on that I put off having kids for many years.
It was back on my Dad’s side, but my parents did they best they could for me.
And I do the best for my son too.
But worry worry worry does no good for anyone.
With all the information on the internet, if you study hard enough you can find symptoms of every disease in your kids.
You can find statistics about inheritance but its nature and Nuture.
I think love can overcome so called bad genes.
sz can come out of nowhere sometimes and you deal with it then.
I suggest you adopt if you’re really so worried about it. Not only would it help you with this worry but it would give a child that is already in this world a good, loving home.
I’m not even sure what all mental illnesses are on my father’s side of the family (my grandmother and father hide it until my father was in full hallucination and had to be taken to the hospital cause he was walking around the house with a loaded gun.) My mother says that if she had known about his illness than she wouldn’t have had me…
Jen, do you have Type 2 diabetes in your family? Or do your female relatives commonly get gestational diabetes? Because both are risk factors for both sz and autism. The fact is the genetic shuffle is unpredictable. You can go off and marry someone else and your babies may have something totally unexpected. Another thing that can trigger the genes involved in sz is a virus infection. How do you avoid that? Viruses also trigger other serious illnesses. As does lack of various vitamins.
IMO, the world is due a massive outbreak of sz as a follow-up on female obesity and gestational diabetes.
You aren’t overweight yourself, presumably, Jen. Because if you are, the risk to your children comes from you.