Romance and dating
7 Lessons I Learned About Love In the Most Unusual Place
Lessons from falling in love inside a mental clinic.
Love can happen anywhere. I have fallen in love in foreign countries, but never before in a mental clinic… until now. I realise love occurs where you are most vulnerable and not really ready for it.
It surprises you in serendipitous moments and makes you feel alive again — at least that’s how I feel after nearly six weeks. So here are seven lessons I learned about love in the most unusual place, the mental clinic, because:
“Love can happen anytime anywhere. Only true love happens somewhere once.” — Yugen Norbu
Side note: How I ended up in a mental clinic
After being a sufferer of suicidal thoughts and depression over the past months, I realised I needed help when I tried to take my life. Coming to the mental clinic, I was broken and numb. Never in a million years did I think I would meet someone who felt the same as me and how we could intertwine our souls together during recovery.
The seven lessons I learned about love in the most unusual place are from a perspective of loving someone with a mental illness, so if you too love someone with mental…
