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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it that these people are able with severe mental ill Ed’s are able to hold it together until well after launching a career, marriage, kids, etc. Isn’t the onset of most mental illness in young adulthood? Or perhaps after so many years masked and untreated, it explodes in the 30s-40s?[/quote] Life circumstances matter. So if they change as someone gets older, their mental health may as well. My brother had a stable, although not perfect life up until our dad died. He had some anxiety but it was managed. Unbeknownst to us, our dad was his rock. My brother's mental health fell apart after that. He broke up with a long term, wonderful girlfriend, hooked up with a woman who has borderline personality disorder, got arrested for DV, tried to kill himself, ended up involuntarily committed where they diagnosed him with bipolar disorder. He was in his 40s. Mental health is complex.[/quote]
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