I agree, but it also depends on what type of mental illness she has: depression is a bit easier to deal with, than schizophrenia for example. From personal experience I can tell you that with the latter you sometimes wish you didn't know that person at all.
Also to outsiders the signs are clear but the involved sometimes do not even notice till it's too late
Maybe depression is easier to deal with for the spectators perspective cause they don't have to experience what it's actually like to be depressed and the depressed person is still sane and in schizophrenia you have to deal with the patients in many ways and it's really a nightmare for the spectators that's why you made that comment I assume but I will still say Comparing two mental illness is really ignorant. Both of them are ugly and exhausting.
If you think depression, a mental illness where people kill themselves is easier to deal with then you really don't know what real depression means.
And I will like to disagree, even when the signs are clear to outsiders the signs are still labeled as being lazy or carzy or and this person is being too much, too sensitive, too angry, too paranoid, You know what I mean right? But yes, you only realize it when it's too late and it's quite a sad reality.
I hope you heal from the experience you had, it takes a toll on your mental health too even when it's not you who is going through it, as I said mental illness not only affect the patient but also all the people around them.
Sending love ~♡
I didn't express myself clear enough I think. Depression and schizophrenia of course are both difficult to deal with, but what I meant was with depression physical confrontations are more lowkey because it generally takes an enormous toll emotionally on both parts. With schizophrenia on the other hand it not only takes an emotional but also a big physical toll, when they have a bad episode.
About the signs, I can agree that some are clear to everyone, but that's under the condition that they had previous knowledge/experience with any type of mental illness. If it's the first time and you have never been in contact with this topic, you won't notice it until it's too late or they do something far out of the ordinary.
Tipical case of Average audience realizing how ugly mental illness can look like.
The wife clearly has a problem, and it developed after she was pregnant, it was ignored as a "phase" even when she was showing clear signs and now it just got bigger and bigger. Mental illness is not cute as it is glamorize in media, it's ugly it's exhausting and it affects EVERYONE around you. You cannot just get "your act together ".
One person unstable mental state is affecting the whole family, and an outsider is clearly trying take advantage of it, you can cheer for the home wrecker all you want but going after a married man clearly means you're not a good person.
All I wish to see is their healing journey. From the raws The author is clearly "team family" and now all I want to see is how they're going to handle this situation. It would nice if this had a happy ending.