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The Role of Love in Mental Health
Love is critical to help us keep faith with life and rescue us from severe mental illness.
In fact, anyone who has ever suffered from mental illness and recovers will do so because of love, whether from a friend, a partner, a child, or a parent.
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It avoids catastrophic imaginings. It is confident that terrible things will either not happen, or it could be dealt with ably enough.
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We perhaps don't realise that seeing another person's face can discourage us from speaking the truth. We may hold back and edit our presentation in the light of their reactions.
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