How do you deal with mental illness?
anonymousdude: My girlfriend is bipolar.  I met her when she was going through a medication change, which was not fun, and she recently had to take a year off from school to deal with her condition, which was hard.  She seems to be doing much better and things have calmed down with her.I've heard some people say that it's not worth it, since those kinds of things "never go away", but she means a lot to me.  I feel that mental illness is only one aspect of such a person, with pluses and minuses (one such plus being that it makes her a stronger person).A huge number of people at my school have Asburger's, and many are on meds for it.  I've seen a lot of them become much more stable and balanced people, mostly because of increased exposure to people like them as well as normal people.Personally, I've found I've developed a very high tolerance to people with personality quirks.