First of all, where did I EVER say I had twenty years experience?
Second of all, YES I have lived with a person with mental health issues. A depressed alcoholic mother and a sister with Munchausen Syndrome (untreated) and her mulitple suicide attempts.
How much medical experience do YOU have? Do you understand that the DSM diagnostic tables are THE tools for diagnosing Mental illness?
I don’t think that you are hopeless, but I do think that you are looking at this issue from an emotional and not rational point of view. There are many degrees of mental illness. Many. And even within a diagnosis there are degrees of severity. Living with one person cannot give one the big picture on the complexity of it. Not at all.
I was not attacking you at all. I`m sssooo sorry that you thought that. Please, please accept my aplologies. I have lived with my mother with mental problems all her life. My point was that she could not be put into a neat little box with a diagnosis. I am sssooo sorry if I hurt you. Did not mean to do anything like that. We are all just people trying to connect. That`s it thats all I was trying to do.