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[quote=Anonymous]Late 30s/early 40s is pretty common. My DH’s older sister was always a bit off but really unraveled in her 30s and should have been institutionalized for her own safety in her early 40s. I didn’t think too much about its heritability until now-exDH hit is early 40s and began his own rapid descent into mental illness. I think 40 is a critical age for mental illness showing if someone hasn’t already developed obvious signs around 18-25. In my experience the challenge is that by that age the person has been independent for long enough that they have the resources to avoid help for a very long time and can also hide from society in a way that a teen or young adult could not. Even now very few people believe that ex-Dh is as ill as he is, because he pulled away from people and was able to just barely hang on to white collar employment.[/quote]
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