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Table 1 Adult child and parent demographics

From: Relational trajectories in families with parental mental illness: a grounded theory approach

Pseudonym

Participant Gender

Participant History of Mental Illness (Y/N)

Parent with Mental Illness

Parent’s Mental Illness

Lionel

Male

Y

Father

Depression

Anxiety

Claudia

Female

Y

Mother

Narcissistic personality disorder *

Gabrielle

Female

Y

Father

Depression

Anxiety

Alcohol addiction

Anna

Female

Y

Father

Bipolar disorder

Suzanne

Female

Y

Mother

Depression

Narcissistic personality disorder

Alcohol addiction

Laura

Female

N

Mother

Bipolar disorder

Tanya

Female

Y

Mother

Paranoid schizophrenia,

Post-natal depression

Post-natal psychosis

Jenny

Female

Y

Father

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Bipolar disorder

Katie

Female

N

Father

Paranoid schizophrenia

Evelyn

Female

N

Father

Bipolar disorder

Manic depression

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

  1. Formal diagnosis was not obtained due to lack of treatment adherence