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Originally Posted by ChipperMonkey
I feel bad for you, I mean my mental health issues are such a huge part of my life that I know if someone didn't try to understand or at the very least be supportive, I couldn't share my life with them.
It's very small minded to think that disorders/ illnesses don't exist because some diagnostic manual didn't make it official until relatively recently. Actually, it would be a toss up between walking away due to utter lack of support or walking away due to their utter stupidity.
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I think someone can be supportive without understanding MI issues. You don't throw away decades of an otherwise loving, healthy relationship because they simply don't/can't understand what you live with every day, but you can make it off limits without compromising your relationship. Most people who deny MI do it out of self-preservation or simple ignorance, not out of stupidity, imho.