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@Former-Member wrote:

One of the complexities of this discussion is to try to separate out the impact of mental illness. Sometimes, it can be tempting to assign blame to an illness or medication when, in fact, what’s occurring is just a normal part of life.

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Yes, true.  But also:  When I have yet another experience of having failed to bond -- even as friends, before any consideration of intimacy -- MI is inevitably brought up as a reason I shouldn't have expected any different outcome, as if I was supposed to be able to "switch it of" as some gesture of interest or intent.  I'm left wondering whether it's just my presonality, or the shape my MI has pushed my personality into, or merely the MI in itself.  It feels like it's always there, no matter what I say or do, like some particularly ugly and foul-tempered parrot on my shoulder.