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Before you're even born, you've entered a lottery, a lottery that sets the stage for how easy or difficult your life will be. The type of family you're born into and the combination of genes that make you, will set you on a path to win or lose the lottery of life. When my grandma, Dr. Sonya Friedman, was born in , she was not on a path to win, genetically or economically speaking, but mainly genetically.

Her mother suffered from severe neurological and psychological mental illnesses, and on several occasions, was hospitalized as a result. My grandma described her mother as "a fragile, somewhat hysterical personality who couldn't really contain herself. A report published by the National Institute of Mental Health on the relationship between genetics and mental health reiterates the validity of my grandma's concerns.

My grandma never knew what her mother's exact psychological diagnosis was, yet said her concern over potentially being affected was great. No wonder she would become a psychologist herself, and a well-known one, too.

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If psychologist talk shows weren't your thing from the late s to late 90s, or you're like me and hadn't been born yet, you might not have heard of my grandma; but, you've almost definitely heard of the TV show "Seinfeld. Obviously, being mentioned on "Seinfeld" isn't what caused my grandma to become known as a pop culture icon. My grandma has been hard at work since the young age of 14; she said that she "has never known what it is not to work.