re: Has anyone here dealt with the onset of mental illness with their spouse?

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My ex wife went through a lot after we were in a car accident. She was seriously injured, and it just wouldn’t heal, eventually requiring surgery and a lot of rehab. She couldn’t use her right arm much, and needed a lot of help being cared for and had to rely on me for almost everything for over a year. As a result, she fell way behind in school and fell into depression.

After she graduated, her career slapped her in the face, and she couldn’t handle it. She started drinking a lot in secret and hiding it. I could tell things were wrong, but she wouldn’t talk about it. I tried to get her to go to therapy or even just talk to her parents, and she refused. She started talking about suicide subtly, then got super abusive, trying to take everything out on me.

I eventually convinced her to get help, and she got through it, quit drinking, changed her job, stopped cutting, made some serious habit changes, and divorced me for the guy she was cheating on me with. No good deeds go unpunished, lol

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