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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When your own health and well-being is being compromised (physically, emotionally, mentally).

There is nothing wrong with divorcing a mentally ill spouse. Maybe they have less control over their behavior, but the effects can be just as detrimental. [/quote]

Do you think it's a different threshold than for physical illness? For example, needing to push your spouse around in a wheelchair limits your life a lot. Same if they need help using the bathroom. [/quote]

It's different.  Someone in a wheelchair can't help but be in a wheelchair.  Presumably OP didn't marry their spouse when their mental illness existed or was unmedicated.  Which means if their spouse put in the effort to get the proper treatment they could likely return to a better state.  Now if op married someone who acts exactly as they do now, op is a bit more at fault but certainly Doesn't mean they have to stay [/quote]

You don't express your thoughts in a way that suggests you're especially knowledgable about mental health. There are a wide array of psychopathologies that can become manifest later in life. Others get progressively worse. Many, just like spinal cord damage, aren't 'repairable'. Psychopathology isn't a case of negligence on the part of the afflicted. Even depression, which is what I'm assuming you're thinking of, can be much harder to control than a few simple visits to a doc. It is brutal to both sides of a marriage; I'm not saying stay at all costs. I just wanted to throw the idea out there that mental health is far more complex than most people realize.[/quote]

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