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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question. Is the mental illness of your spouses pretty much hidden and how do they interact with your extended family? I think this is going on with a close relative but he is very secretive. We wish he would open up so we could help in some way.[/quote] PP with mentally ill mom here. It depends on how the illness manifests and how willing the people around the mentally ill person are to humor them. For example, my mother was the youngest of many children and her lifelong debilitating anxiety and eating disorder were basically considered personality quirks by her siblings. Other family members would step in and cover for her as she increasingly made catastrophic life decisions. But it wasn’t really until I was in my 30s that everyone acknowledged that her mental illness was severe and probably needed medical intervention, but she declines because she is not “crazy.”[/quote]
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