1. How does your partner’s illness affect your relationship as a couple?

2. How does your partner’s illness affect your children?

3. How did you first respond when you realized your partner lives with a mental illness?

4. What did you do to learn more about your partner’s diagnosis?

5. What sources of information have been most helpful to you in your search to find resources and/or help for your partner?

6. What boundary or limit-setting strategies have you used in order to make your life manageable?

7. How have mental health providers and programs been helpful to your partner and yourself?

8. What suggestions do you have for how mental health providers and programs could better meet the needs of family members?

9. How has having a partner who lives with a mental illness affected your self-concept?

10. What are your “go-to” coping strategies?

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