Polyamory and Mental Illness: New Blog Series

Good points. (And this isn't the first time I've seen Karen Ruskin's article.)
 
Hey folks,

A couple people had mentioned their willingness to share their experiences dealing with mental illness in poly relationships. For sanity reasons, I am not able to reach out to people individually right now, but anyone who is still interested can contact me a jessicaburde (at) gmail (dot) com

Thanks guys!
 
I was wondering if we could contact you via PM?
 
That was really powerful. Thank you for sharing a glimpse into your world right now. I do hope it gets better for you soon.
 
Glad to hear that. I've got generalized anxiety disorder, so I can relate to the whole getting paralyzed sensation quite a bit. Glad you're shining a light on all this.
 
Depression (and anxiety) can get pretty awful, can't it? I think it's impossible to understand unless you've been through it.
 
reflections said:
That was really powerful. Thank you for sharing a glimpse into your world right now. I do hope it gets better for you soon.
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I agree - this was a very powerful piece.

I read it aloud to my husband with tears in my eyes. MrS and Lotus both suffer from depression (I have GAD). The months that MrS was literally incapacitated and I didn't know what I would find when I came home from work. Focusing on the basics. Did he eat? Did he pee? My own angst at being unable to do anything more than hold him or sit with him while he was in his own private hell - and wondering if, even that, was the right thing to do.
 
I think taking care of someone that deep in mental illness is its own kind of hell. I hope MrS is doing better now.

I can't speak for every person dealing with depression, but in my experience, just being there, being a reminder that we're not alone, that there is someone with us who does care, is never the wrong thing to do.
 
JessicaBurde said:
I think taking care of someone that deep in mental illness is its own kind of hell. I hope MrS is doing better now.

I can't speak for every person dealing with depression, but in my experience, just being there, being a reminder that we're not alone, that there is someone with us who does care, is never the wrong thing to do.
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Thank you for that.

That was almost 4 years ago and was the longest stretch. There have been days and, once, a few weeks where things have been bad but, on the whole, he IS doing much better.
 
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