I would say yes it can. I've been in a relationship for two years with my girlfriend who has cyclothymic disorder, and me, well, I don't stick around long enough for a diagnoses, the nearest I got to a diagnoses is "possibley some form of depressive illness" and "some form of anxiety". And the anxiety one is inaccurate now anyway, but we've been together two years, and yeah it gets hard when we both have a bad time simultaneously, but we're so close, we give each other something to live for, and we know each other so well, we help each other well.
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