I haven’t experienced romantic love since sz. All my previous relationships were bad.
I believe in love, I feel a lot of love in my life from family and a few friends, so I know it absolutely exists.
I think romantic love is a lot harder, requires more patience and sacrifice. But i thinks it’s doable. I have thought about it a good bit. I would have to take it very slow, and slowly gain trust, and then explain my illness if it got to that level of intimacy. Then I’d already prepare myself that they might not want to take that on. I couldn’t blame them, it takes a special kind of person to do that.
Ultimately though I’d rather be happy and at peace by myself then trapped in a bad relationship. So, I’m cautiously optimistic.
People experience love in different ways. I knew someone who thought I didn’t love them because I wasn’t worried for them all the time. Their mother had been a worrier, instantly worrying and fussing. It was all they knew of love. So for them, love triggered them to worry. The stress of worrying caused more symptoms to appear, including hallucinations.
Psychosis doesn’t take away one’s sense of right and wrong.
Oh, you ‘didn’t care about her very much,’ huh? People you don’t like, don’t have to be given basic common decency, then? Why are you like this? It is not your mental illness.
No one knows this but me but I feel the same way I got married in May and I FINALLY feel like my eyes are seeing right and that my mind is clear and I realized a lot of things… Idk if my marriage will work out or not but I’m gonna try as long as he does.
