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Rhapsody
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29 Oct 2024, 12:45 am

^^^ Okay, that makes sense. Thank you both for explaining!

Also, that's horrible that they would experiment on people like that.



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29 Oct 2024, 12:52 am

Rhapsody wrote:
^^^ Okay, that makes sense. Thank you both for explaining!


No worries! :)



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07 Nov 2024, 6:23 am

MaxE wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
Rhapsody wrote:
Wait, dating somebody with a mental illness is against the "rules" of dating? I obviously missed that memo. Why is it against the rules?


I think MaxE is pretty old and from an age less forgiving of mental illness. So mental illness is a sort of thing people would avoid, if it were obvious.

That said, there are different levels of mental illness, even for the same disorders. Some people are functional and others are well, 'barking' (mad).

There's a very crude saying about this that I sometimes encounter on Reddit, so I really doubt it's an old person thing.

Does "crazy" correlate with "mentality ill"? The crude saying to which I referred earlier includes that word. There's nothing generational about it, it's quite current. I have sometimes wondered if I shouldn't have accepted a sexual advance from a woman with schizophrenia when I was 22. In fact, the long-term consequences of that had little to do with her disease, still it sometimes bothers me when I think about it.


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