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When Both Partners in a Relationship Live With Mental Illnesses

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In our individualistic society, therapists, counselors and researchers tend to focus on individual people, not their families or relationships.

However, studies show a positive correlation between one partner struggling with mental illness and the other partner sharing that same struggle, and sometimes one person’s mental illness is a direct response to the other’s condition.

That’s the way it is in my marriage. I’ve had problems with depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember, and my husband lives with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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