How did your partner support you while you struggled with mental illness? (Dealing with Depression: Part III)

The interviewee explains how her partner was really a part of her support system from the very early stages of her recovery from a really severe state of depression. “He was pretty much aware from the very beginning,” she says. It was very nerve racking to open up about her depression and for him to see that part of her but she thinks when you are in love with someone or even the early stages before you fall in love with someone you have to kind of reference who you are.
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