If they were recovery oriented and compliant with treatment, as well as not detatched from reality, I’d give them a chance.
I can honestly say I don’t know if I’d date someone with bipolar or borderline, as people who can’t (or won’t) control their emotions scare me.
I’m sure they are others
There’s no other reason for somebody to “getting with us” for me except weight gain
Exactly that’s the problem. When somebody is saner then me, that person can drag me to reality. If she is like me, I drag her down to my reality, if she’s worse then me she drags me down.
Imagine if a therapist was mentally ill and on one day he gives me a terrible advice from 100 good ones and it gets bad. He might loose his job and I might do something I regret.
Don’t settle for less just because you think you’re less, that’s my advice to anyone including myself
It seems like almost everyone I’ve ever dated has been a little or a lot crazy in their own way. And my last ex was even crazier than me I think.
You say there are others @anon92220549 but a whole load of people just disagreed with you in this thread… Yes it will stop some people from getting with us, I admit that not everyone is fine about sz. And I dont think that I would believe someone else’s delusions so I don’t see a problem with that, even if I had a gf with sz or something. You might say they have more insight, but I am pretty stable at the moment if they made me happy that would be all that matters. If they were bad though and I found it more upsetting than gratifying I would not want to be with them in the first place.
As someone with SZ, i wouldn’t mind dating a girl with SZ if her positive symptoms are manageable and her negative symptoms are mild.
Some of the nicest people I have met were in mental health wards. I am not saying I want to date them all, but it showed me that they’re all just people too despite their problems.
The question should be whether a person without MH issues would date someone who does, and I think for a lot of people despite their pity wouldn’t do it
That’s not a problem in most countries, for high functional people. High functional people can date anybody but would they choose to date a person with mentall problems? That is the question
I consider you all high functional
I talked to a few other women with sz or sza on a dating site for MI. I didn’t notice anything crazy about them. They were stable in my opinion. Schizophrenics who takes meds and are recovery oriented are not sick people.
@anon92220549 What do you mean? We are wrong because we have a mental illness? Your words are a bit offensive but i guess only me noticed so i might be wrong.
It’s hard to say honestly, as long as the person is managing their illness well and is high functioning. If it was someone with sz , then the chances of me bringing kids into the world is highly unlikely
I wouldn’t want to date a normal person because normal is not capable of understanding me.
Be better n make so much goodness that he forgot about ur illness. Is possible u know
Well I think it is a big problem. Prejudice is high. I bet you wouldn’t write Schizophrenia on a dating profile whether you’re high functional or not.
I wouldn’t purely because of genetics and kids
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Yeah, I think I would, actually.
Mental health issues are just another thing about someone, it doesn’t have to mean anything. When trying to connect with someone, if one makes it into a problem it will be a problem: just as anything else. I’ve had experience dating both “normies” & sz, bipolar etc. I’d say that dating normal people is safer, but it has several other problems that I found to be severely debilitating for the relationship.
I don’t know know what a “normie” is like besides professionals. Mostly everyone I know since 2012 has some sort of mental illness. I was in and out of a day program, but was discharged in 2016. We have our issues, but I honestly don’t see a difference from a “normie”
Yes. Mrs. Squirrel can’t help being a fan of “Murder, She Wrote”.
yes i would, no one needs some one with out there ups and down’s