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Those are just depression! There's a long list of historical geniuses who suffered from mental illnesses...just to name a few--Van Gogh, Picasso, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Ernest Hemingway, Tolstoy, Issac Newton, heck, many say Albert Einstein may have been mentally ill!
Thanks for adding to the list - got busy here and didn't have time to continue making my point
Those are just depression! There's a long list of historical geniuses who suffered from mental illnesses...just to name a few--Van Gogh, Picasso, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Ernest Hemingway, Tolstoy, Issac Newton, heck, many say Albert Einstein may have been mentally ill!
That's great, but I still don't think I would have wanted to date any of them.
Those are just depression! There's a long list of historical geniuses who suffered from mental illnesses...just to name a few--Van Gogh, Picasso, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Ernest Hemingway, Tolstoy, Issac Newton, heck, many say Albert Einstein may have been mentally ill!
yeah, so?? Doesn't mean they are datable!!!
My last bf was very smart but he heard voices and was convinced that the FBI is watching him. He accused me of cheating because I cheated on him in his dreams. And dreams - of course - always relate to reality, so it must be true. And he was able to walk around in a bubble so nobody can see him. yeah, no more crazy people for me!!!
It depends on the type of illness, the intensity, the side-effects, the extent to which it renders the person uncommunicative, irascible and unpredictable. That said, having a melancholy and dour disposition, I often find myself having MORE in common with persons tending towards what by conventional interpretation would be a mental deviation, if not outright pathology. The so-called mentally ill often see with greater clarity the true horrors of the human condition, the burden of consciousness, the ridiculousness of dealing with an internal moral compass, the untenable middle ground between the animal and the divine. Many amongst the mentally ill take more skeptical view of the modern noxious cult of independence, being driven to escape from solitude, instead of merely accepting company (be it a romantic relationship or otherwise) as mere complement to what's already purported to be good. Many amongst the thus-afflicted would realize that "desperation" is not a concupiscent hormonal tantrum or a crude ineptitude raging for an easy out, but the result of years of flaw and furrow, a preparation for a spectacle that won't quite go. Many would see the abject silliness of what so dominates the mainstream thought, bouncing with a giddy ease through so-called crucial impediments, and pausing carefully to ponder where others blithely sashay by.
So, yes, if I found a woman who was but mad north-northwest, she would be worth maintaining a southerly breeze.
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yeah, so?? Doesn't mean they are datable!!!
My last bf was very smart but he heard voices and was convinced that the FBI is watching him. He accused me of cheating because I cheated on him in his dreams. And dreams - of course - always relate to reality, so it must be true. And he was able to walk around in a bubble so nobody can see him. yeah, no more crazy people for me!!!
I agree with you. Big damn difference between good person and dateable person.
My last bf was very smart but he heard voices and was convinced that the FBI is watching him. He accused me of cheating because I cheated on him in his dreams. And dreams - of course - always relate to reality, so it must be true. And he was able to walk around in a bubble so nobody can see him. yeah, no more crazy people for me!!!
So.....
You said people with mental health issues aren't "good" people.
That's simply not true.
Sure some mentally ill folks aren't good dating material, but that doesn't make them bad people, which is what your comment implied.
They may be awesome people. But not datable for me ... anymore. Been there, done that. NO. NOnonono.
Honey, I hear you - but you still implied that people with mental health issues are not good people, and that is not true. This is the only thing we were trying to correct.
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