Some of this is crap. No matter how bad my bipolar symptoms have gotten, my S/O has never been a caretaker for me. This article makes me feel like they are stereotyping people with MIs as incompetent people who just burden others. I don't know what kind of situation the author is in, but it is too generalized for my liking. My mental health is my problem, not my S/Os and though it affects him to some degree, I'm not a burden to him that he needs to make sure he doesn't go insane about.