Dating anyone involves a certain amount of nonsense.
It’s one of those ridiculous things that humans do and then make a big mess of and then do again. Don’t ask me to explain it.
Dating someone with a mental illness is a whole different set of nonsense.
Not the nonsense that the media will have you believe. Movies and TV shows have stitched us up pretty royally in this department. We won’t burn down your house or chase you around a nightclub trying to kill you. That’s The Terminator. You’re thinking of The Terminator.
No, your mentally ill partner isn’t a bomb waiting to go off, they just have a set of needs that might differ from yours. Here’s what your mentally ill partner really wants – and needs – from you.
Genuine understanding
We don’t want your cookie-cutter ‘you can do this!’ ‘I believe in you!’ bullsh*t. We don’t want you to refer to our serious depressive episodes ‘getting sad sometimes!’ or say that we’re… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/08/mentally-partner-really-wants-needs-7142339/
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