Re: Would you marry a guy with a mental illness
Not all mental illnesses are chronic conditions that will be with a person for life and require lifelong care. For example, with proper treatment, a person can recover (yes, recover completely) from PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Also, there is a significant difference between being developmentally challenged (i.e. autism, Down syndrome, mental retardation, etc.) and other mental illnesses. Those are two very different things. People who have mental illnesses are not necessarily developmentally challenged. For instance, someone with PTSD or depression can go to school, work, drive, and manage their own affairs. Of course, this depends on the severity of the illness and whether or not the person is receiving and following treatment but it is definitely not the same as, say, having Down syndrome and requiring life long care.
As far as why someone would knowingly marry someone with a mental illness, it is possible that they aren’t aware of it. Mental illness is still extremely taboo in the South Asian community. Many people are either in denial that their child has a mental illness and do not address it and seek treatment or they deliberately hide it. I’ve heard of cases where families did not disclose that their son or daughter had a mental illness and the spouse only discovered this after getting married.