Study links mental health struggles with marriage partners

The old saying that opposites attract can go out the window in this instance.

A new study has found that people with psychiatric disorders are more likely to say “I do” to someone with similar mental health struggles than a partner without a diagnosis.

“The pattern holds across countries, across cultures, and, of course, generations,” Chun Chieh Fan, co-author of the study and a researcher at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, told Nature, per the New York Post .

Psychiatric disorders are climbing in the U.S. with some 23.1% of adults affected in 2022, up from 18.1% two decades earlier, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

According to the previous studies have shown that when one spouse fights mental health issues, the other is two to three times more like