If you have diagnosed mental health issues, when do you disclose that to a new partner? How much do you disclose? If you're dating someone with anxiety or depression, how can you support them and yourself at the same time?
Hear it all on this episode of the Queer Joy Podcast; where two relationship therapists explore what it looks like to see joy in queer relationships.
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Melisa: As the person with anxiety, it's dangerous territory for me to expect a partner to learn all of my triggers, constantly avoid them, help me through everything. Like, they're also people. They also have things going on and it's not fair for me to put my mental health on them as their job to fix. Keely: Yeah. Going back to the basic of what a relationship is, it isn't our role to change anybody or to fix anybody or to solve problems for anybody. Keely: Hi, Queer Relationship, Queer Joy. Well, we're here today. I'm inspired by Mental Health Awareness month. So for folks that don't know May, and it's other things too, I want to be clear that I think it's also Asian Pacific Islander awareness month. It's Mental Health Awareness month. And so, being that we're therapists, we