Anyone else living with a person with mental illness? How do you keep focused on your health?

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@@OKCPirate I'm sorry to hear about the struggles. I have so much respect for you for taking such great care of your kiddos. I can't imagine how touch it must have been to do all you did. You are a good man!!

My sister is suicidal. I say is because she has tried it, has since gotten a lot better, but I am not fooled into thinking it will never happen again.

You said you thought your ex wife could have BPD. Did she have a traumatic childhood? I am just curious. I have always had a strong interest in mental disorders, thus, majoring in psychology, then changing it to a minor and certification to teach it.

I am just thrilled that you are truly happy now.

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Believe me, OKCPirate, old shrinks know how to fool themselves, having learned from the best of the patients over the years! I am an expert in this! But overall, those things are slipping away, replaced by health and a much much smaller me. I am about to slip under 300 pounds for the first time since 1972.... wahoo!

Seems to me that the best psychologists and psychiatrists often have the messiest lives and the cobbler's children go barefoot. The laws of nature are at work.

VDB, I sent you a private BP "mail." It now occurs to me that you may not be set up for notices of such things. Promise: It isn't a request for professional advice. After all, this isn't a cocktail party.