Do girls find it a turn off if a guy has a mental health problem?

I suffer from anxiety, I have a form of OCD and sometimes I get panic attacks. I also suffer from a mild form of depression. I have received treatment for both (I group panic attacks with OCD/anxiety) in the past.

I am slightly worried girls are going to think less of me because of those problems. I was not aware of how "we" are perceived by women who are mentally healthy but from what I read on this forum, we're generally not favoured by girls :/

I don't understand entirely why that is. If they are untreated, yes they can be very consuming and disabling (I will be dead scared of contracting various illnesses - my phobia - and I would read about them for days without getting sleep or rest and without being able to think about anything else). But if I'm receiving treatment and it's working, I'm unrecognisably "normal" (a bit fastidious with my hygiene but nothing too serious). affectionate and, hopefully, interesting and funny.

I wouldn't want to hide those problems from a girl I liked but if that was the only reason for her not to like me back, I definitely would.

OP, not gonna hold your hand and tell you everything gonna be ok like everyone else is, because that is bulll****.

Although this is a simplification, it's a valid one, in that women want the best guys they can find. Having mental health problems/depression are not attractive qualities, and so a lot of women are going to be turned off by it.

You can listen to all the other people on here who will tell you some airy fairy BS about how you will find someone who will accept you for who you are, but likelihood of that is low. Much better course of action is to really analyse the factors in your life that are driving your depression/panic attacks, and work towards overcoming them. I don't know what it will take but goes without saying that overcoming these issues will be much better for you in long term

I suffer from anxiety, I have a form of OCD and sometimes I get panic attacks. I also suffer from a mild form of depression. I have received treatment for both (I group panic attacks with OCD/anxiety) in the past.

I am slightly worried girls are going to think less of me because of those problems. I was not aware of how "we" are perceived by women who are mentally healthy but from what I read on this forum, we're generally not favoured by girls :/

I don't understand entirely why that is. If they are untreated, yes they can be very consuming and disabling (I will be dead scared of contracting various illnesses - my phobia - and I would read about them for days without getting sleep or rest and without being able to think about anything else). But if I'm receiving treatment and it's working, I'm unrecognisably "normal" (a bit fastidious with my hygiene but nothing too serious). affectionate and, hopefully, interesting and funny.

I wouldn't want to hide those problems from a girl I liked but if that was the only reason for her not to like me back, I definitely would.

My experience has been that, generally speaking, people don't want to hear your problems. Lots of people do like to help others, especially those they care about, but then you get those people who are a constant downer. They'll constantly come to you and moan and whine and just give you this catalogue of problems all the time, you know the sort of conversations where they're writing on a ratio of 100:1 with you? I try to be nice to people like that, but they get you down too, and you end up just telling them what they want to hear and you come off not wanting to speak to them again. You also get the type of people who won't shut up about their 'crippling OCD' or 'panic attacks' when they don't have any of those issues and just look for sympathy, not saying that you're like that, but when you start brining up your conditions early on, that sort of thing springs to mind to some people and they might judge you by subconsciously associating you with those people. Gotta love people pretending to have problems and making it worse for the rest of us.

I think my point is, don't make a big deal out of it. It's a part of your personality, and people will either like it or not, and loads of people will. I think making too much of a big thing out of it is either worth it nor is it beneficial.

I won't bring my "conditions" up at any point if I don't need to. But I take medication every day and I see a therapist once a week. Unless I see her once a month, she's gonna notice. In which case, I will have to explain my "conditions" to her. Or lie.

I am not interested in people's sympathy. It doesn't help me in the least, I want to be liked not "pitied". When I discuss those issues with a girl I like it's because I want to build trust between us -- I don't want her to think I hide stuff from her.

I receive help from my GP and my psychiatrist, it's really counter-productive to talk to others about it but sometimes I have no option.

I suffer from anxiety, I have a form of OCD and sometimes I get panic attacks. I also suffer from a mild form of depression. I have received treatment for both (I group panic attacks with OCD/anxiety) in the past.

I am slightly worried girls are going to think less of me because of those problems. I was not aware of how "we" are perceived by women who are mentally healthy but from what I read on this forum, we're generally not favoured by girls :/

I don't understand entirely why that is. If they are untreated, yes they can be very consuming and disabling (I will be dead scared of contracting various illnesses - my phobia - and I would read about them for days without getting sleep or rest and without being able to think about anything else). But if I'm receiving treatment and it's working, I'm unrecognisably "normal" (a bit fastidious with my hygiene but nothing too serious). affectionate and, hopefully, interesting and funny.

I wouldn't want to hide those problems from a girl I liked but if that was the only reason for her not to like me back, I definitely would.

I suffer from anxiety, I have a form of OCD and sometimes I get panic attacks. I also suffer from a mild form of depression. I have received treatment for both (I group panic attacks with OCD/anxiety) in the past.

I am slightly worried girls are going to think less of me because of those problems. I was not aware of how "we" are perceived by women who are mentally healthy but from what I read on this forum, we're generally not favoured by girls :/

I don't understand entirely why that is. If they are untreated, yes they can be very consuming and disabling (I will be dead scared of contracting various illnesses - my phobia - and I would read about them for days without getting sleep or rest and without being able to think about anything else). But if I'm receiving treatment and it's working, I'm unrecognisably "normal" (a bit fastidious with my hygiene but nothing too serious). affectionate and, hopefully, interesting and funny.

I wouldn't want to hide those problems from a girl I liked but if that was the only reason for her not to like me back, I definitely would.