I've seen a lot of those articles lately, too, but few of the conversations about self-care. In fact an ongoing frustration for me is that I almost *never* see decent internet people who aren't dickheads acknowledge that mentally ill people (and presumably other ill people, but I've only caught this first-hand with mentally ill friends/partners) can be abusive too. Nor the fact that many carers, friends, partners etc are also mentally ill or disadvantaged on some other axis.
Which is not to say that your points here aren't strong ones, for they are. The only way I can concieve of balancing those two sets of variables is via everyone being extremely up-front, blunt, and honest about what they need and what they can or can't do. Which sounds lovely... but requires all parties being practiced at this. Sigh.
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Date: 2014-03-10 07:17 am (UTC)I've seen a lot of those articles lately, too, but few of the conversations about self-care. In fact an ongoing frustration for me is that I almost *never* see decent internet people who aren't dickheads acknowledge that mentally ill people (and presumably other ill people, but I've only caught this first-hand with mentally ill friends/partners) can be abusive too. Nor the fact that many carers, friends, partners etc are also mentally ill or disadvantaged on some other axis.
Which is not to say that your points here aren't strong ones, for they are. The only way I can concieve of balancing those two sets of variables is via everyone being extremely up-front, blunt, and honest about what they need and what they can or can't do. Which sounds lovely... but requires all parties being practiced at this. Sigh.