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Is childhood trauma REALLY a precipitating factor, or did our childhoods just suck because mental illness runs in our families?

Can bipolar disorder recede or remit on its own? I'm BD1 with two first-degree relatives who seem to have experienced mania in young adulthood, but no longer cycle (dramatically enough to obviously need care) -- this is without medication. I wouldn't risk following their example myself, but interested to know what experts think.