Hi Janine,

Do you mind me asking what your cousin's DH has? I would imagine that for schizophrenia, bipolar etc it would be more difficult, and I've also heard that different states in Australia deal with it differently too.

I phoned the Department yesterday and they said that they look at us as a family and how we would be as parents, rather than 'oh you have a mental illness therefore you can't be good parents'..we are going to an introductory session in a few weeks so we will talk to them more then. I think different country programs look at it differently as well and the Department will give us advice on which country programs would be better for us to apply to (as they do with all applicants).

Cheers,