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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Their condition gets worse.  My mother had severe anxiety when I was small, which progressed to paranoia, which progressed to delusions.  It was rough.  I don’t know how the non-mentally ill parent is supposed to deal.  On her own my mother had atrocious judgment and couldn’t take care of another person.[/quote]

+ same with my father and my uncles, all divorced. Their wives were saints until they too were almost driven insane by the insanity of living with someone like that.  [/quote]

I wonder if there is research on this- do “minor” mental illnesses like anxiety or depression frequently escalate to psychosis when they are left untreated for long periods, like years or decades?[/quote]

There is acute anxiety or depression- easy to pinpoint and treat (a death, laid off, post partum), and there is chronic anxiety and depression, which is an output of underlying mental disorders or disabilities. 
The latter, you can somewhat treat the anxiety and depression but until you Dx and treat the underlying cause and mental disorder flare ups or worse will continue to happen [/quote]

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