Today, I overcame my lack of social confidence and got a date for the first time in 10 or so years. After a while, my date admitted that she's a schizophrenic with dissociative identity disorder. I guess it's back to being single. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I had a date with a man who works as a psychiatrist. He diagnosed me with borderline personality disorder during dinner. FML
Today, after spending 4 years without dating after an abusive relationship, and going out with who I thought was a decent guy for 6 months, I told him I have bipolar disorder and take medication for it. He responded by dumping me saying he can’t date someone who’s “crazy.” Back to putting my wall up I go. FML
Today, my psychiatrist diagnosed me with a personality disorder. So now I have no friends, no job, no love, but I've got a personality disorder. FML
Today, I met someone really cool and their departing words were, for some odd reason, "We should totally be friends, I mean unless you're schizophrenic or something, haha!" I have schizophrenia. FML
Today, I was set up on my first blind date since my divorce. My expectations were low, but when she showed up, she was a smoking hot. She was way out of my league, she was delightful and kind throughout the date, but my low confidence shined through. That night she acquired an expensive dinner and a stalker. Me. FML
Today, it was supposed to be my first date with a girl I've been speaking to for three months. Last night, she revealed that she's still married, that her husband is "not so bad", and then confessed it all to him and blocked me. It was gonna be my first date in six years, after the last one stalked me across the country. FML
Today, during my first date with a girl I've liked for awhile, she tells me about some minor disabilities she was born with. Wanting to be honest with her too, I tell her I'm slightly autistic. Her response was, "I'm sorry this isn't going to work. I can't date a retard." I had to eat alone after that. FML
Today, I saw a psychiatrist for the first time. After telling her everything I'm going through, she looked at me and said "You know… every five years or so I get a case completely beyond my ability to help." I guess it's been five years. FML
Today, I went on a blind date. Sadly, I wasn't blind enough. FML
Today, I got a date after being alone for the past 2 years. The girl who my friends set me up with began asking my monthly income, my current occupation, and asked if I have a credit card account. FML
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poopsi 19
From someone who has extreme panic attack disorder, OCD and crippling depression, this intensifies my worry that I'll be alone forever. I feel sorry for her, to be honest. That was probably really hard for her to do.
unique_freak 17
Because obviously we should immediately discount the possibility of dating anyone with a mental illness, right? Or should she have just lied to you about it for a while first? It was probably incredibly difficult for her to be upfront about having such a stigmatized medical condition. If you choose not to get involved thats your prerogative, but I hope you handled it tactfully at least. If you think it's hard for you to get a date, imagine how she must feel.
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sstahpp 33
Crazy people needs some lovin' too!
pizzafrommars 14
That's a little rude. Mental illness is hard enough to deal with without people like you.
wtffml1979 22
Booo. Have some fun. Don't be uptight
gracehi 33
Mental illness is hard to deal with, but also for the people around the mentally ill. People reject potential romantic partners for all kinds of reasons: being unattractive, overweight, poor, too old, too young, too obsessed with sports or Star Wars, etc... Mental illness seems like as good a reason as any to me. If OP doesn't want to deal with a mentally ill partner, or feels that he can't handle it (it sounds like he has enough of his own problems), then there's no reason to pursue a relationship. Better for both of them to cut their losses now rather than form a attachments and endure heartbreak later.
wtffml1979 22
Took care of the social problem. Like having a few dates for one. That's a threesome in the making.
PossiblyInDanger 24
Wow. Millions of people have mental ilness. You just judged her for... what exactly? Something that could very well be completely under control and she might have no issues. This is the same as going "She has asthma, check her off the list!"
iwanttogotoparis 26
2 in 1
bananassin 25
being single is good these days. At least... I guesss
abNormal62 23
Maybe you should walk a mile in her stilettos first, my friend. She took an equally huge chance if not more so, than what you are doing, and she disclosed to you early her issues. Kudos to her! Shame on you however! You may not want to date her, but to flat out reject her on her most vulnerable issue is beyond cold, it's cruel. If that happened to you, it would have pushed you off the dating site and back into the isolation of your own home and mind. Don't do to her, what you fear experiencing yourself. People's actions have consequences.
fsomelife 26
I dated someone without schizophrenia or DID. Well, dated is an overstatement: she threatened to kill herself if I didn't move to a different state for her, even though we weren't together. And yet, no known mental issues. Perhaps you should have given this honest girl a chance instead of jumping to conclusions.
frostedfoster 15
Way to be über hypocritical. How can you judge and reject someone with a mental disorder when you yourself admit to having on? I guess anyone who suffers from any form of depression is undateable. I thought as a society we were getting better with this....
juturnaamo 29
Because a person with mental health issues might be well aware he isn't equipped to deal with someone else's, especially when he hasn't gotten a handle on his own yet.
JustStella 28
OP, that's a little harsh. I had an ex who has schizophrenia and I was crazy about him (pun intended). The only reason we broke up was because we couldn't do the whole long distance thing. She's probably getting help; you might not want to deal with that after being out of game for so long but please know that someone with mental issues is worth being loved as well.