My partner of 15 years has recently been diagnosed with severe depression, OCD and addictive behaviours. He's seeing a therapist and medicated.
Background info, I have caught him out using chat rooms and video chat with other women. This behaviour has been ongoing for sometime.
My question and help I'm needing is how do I separate or do I separate his medical condition to his choices?
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Sorry I’d be done. He doesn’t get to give you the worst of him while he flirts and chats elsewhere and blame mental health.
I wouldn’t seperate them.
I'm so tired of mental illness being used as an excuse for shitty behaviour!
The disorders he's struggling with are brutal but it doesn't absolve him of any kind of personal accountability and consequences to his choices.
He is no less responsible for his actions than someone who doesn't struggle with mental health issues.
If someone was bipolar and manic (full blown psychotic, no idea what they're doing plus they get sexual urges also) I might MAYBE factor it in, and that's a big maybe. With what he has, ABSOLUTELY not, no excuse whatsoever.