[AKA_Monet]

Did you know that some bipolar disorders are tightly correlated to type 2 diabetes??? It is called Wolfram's Syndrome.

So, some mental illnesses may be a result of underlying diseases that many people get as they age. So if you all keep living, you will age too...

Generalized Anxiety Disorders may have something to do with Hypertension... Like one of the Salt Transporters in the kidney is not genetically coded properly or is mutated, so there is an increase in blood pressure and an imbalance in sodium. When a similar transporter in the brain malfunctions, it initially causes anxiety... Then the prognosis is poor as one age.

Some learning disabilities and mental slownesses tightly correlate to the incidence of cancer. A child with down's syndrome is more likely to die from malignant melanoma or other cancers than normal individuals as they become adults...

Most cancer patients suffer from depression as a result of treatment... Chemotherapeutics kills all growing cells and some senescent cells, dehabilitating mental function, including the chemicals that control emotion--seretonin, norepinephrine, GABA receptors, NMDA receptors...

Some other disorders could lead to Alzhemiers and Cardiovascular Diseases...

So, I do not think it is an issue of dating someone who has a mental disability is the question that one ought to be asking...

My question is can you manage the care of an individual that actually does have an ill-described illness that begins to manifest itself as an effect on thought habits and emotions???

Moreover, should folks who actively seek help with their disability be having children, when it probably a genetic disease to begin with...

As Rudey would say:

We are all mutants...