Upon completion of the genogram, I began to notice a pattern in my family that was disheartening and that was the common substance abuse and mental illness that flows through my mother’s siblings. This was alarming considering that this might become a pattern that can attach itself to the children of my aunts and uncles. According to the genogram out of the eight brothers and sisters of my mother, three of them abuse a substance and three others have a serious mental illness and substance abuse problems. Only two other aunts, Lourdes and Margarita do not have a substance abuse issue or have been diagnosed with a mental illness. However, my aunt Margarita does have a physical issue that causes her to be unable to work and she has been placed