When to Walk Away From Someone With Mental Illness: Setting Healthy Boundaries
Loving someone with mental illness can ask more of you than almost any other relationship challenge. It can pull in compassion, loyalty, fear, hope, guilt, exhaustion, and grief, sometimes all in the same day. The hardest part is that many people assume there are only two moral options: stay no matter what, or leave because you do not care enough. Real life is rarely that simple. A person can be deeply unwell and still be responsible for harmful behavior. You can underst