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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm afraid OP is the person with a diagnosed mental illness, and so it pains me to say this, but no, I personally would not marry a partner with anything in the DSM.

My perspective is that of a person who married and then was divorced from a man with a basic, very common  mental disorder (nothing dramatic or rare). I'm also in health care and consult every week on  patients admitted to inpatient behavioral health units in hospitals.   I have immense compassion for and understanding of people with bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, anxiety etc.  I want all my tax dollars earmarked to study and treat these diseases. I have a child with a (for now) mild form of one of these diseases.

And ***given the choice,***  I would not attempt to set up a life and procreate with a person with any of these disorders, knowing what I know and have already own lived.   [/quote]

Your child has a a high chance of developing  a mental health disorder, so you are saying your kid is not deserving of love and marriage.

You don't want your tax dollars to help people you want them to build institutions so people can be locked away and you don't have to think about them.[/quote]

Your reading comprehension really sucks.  The poster [i]already has[/i] a child with a mental disorder.  Today  Not "a high chance of developing" one sometime later.

She says she wants adequate funding for treatment and research.   Nobody is talking about involuntary commitment of people to "institutions" with "locks."   Are you able to tell the difference between these two concepts?   It's interesting to hear the perspective of someone who actually works with the  mentally ill as a profession.  This may be over your head though[/quote]

I read exactly what she wrote, but her attitude is that  of someone who thinks people should be committed. Take your condescenion elsewhere.[/quote]

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