Polyamory on Purpose Archive

Tag: Mental Illness

  • How Can I Support my Mentally Ill Poly Partner? (Part 1)

    Watching someone you love suffer sucks, and if we are being totally honest, in a lot of ways it sucks even more when that suffering spills over and messes with your own life, which mental illness has a bad tendency to do. Even worse, with mental illness there so often seems to be nothing you…

  • Opening Up About Mental Illness

    This week we’re going to look at the whens and hows of telling poly partners about mental illness. If you don’t have mental illness yourself, stick around because we are also going to be talking about the best ways to respond when a partner tells you about their mental illness. Opening Up About Mental Illness…

  • Facts About Mental Illness for Polyamorous Partners

    Before we get into the intersection of mental illness and polyamory I want to take a look at a few facts about mental illness. This post is primarily written for the poly partners of people dealing with mental illness, but will be generally useful to anyone interested in the basics of mental illness. What is…

  • Polyamory and Mental Illness

    Hey folks. This week we’re starting a new posting series about the intersection of mental illness and polyamory. We’ll be covering everything from facts about mental illness, to disclosing mental illness, to the impact of mental illness on jealousy, and a great deal more. I asked Clementine Morrigan, who inspired this series, to kick us…