I posted before but I wasn't happy with it; you've about summed up what I had to say. I don't know OP or his girlfriend, but I was with someone with depression

I posted before but I wasn't happy with it; you've about summed up what I had to say. I don't know OP or his girlfriend, but I was with someone with depression for over 2 years. Frankly, my need to help her made things worse; instead of getting out of bed and forced into the cold light of day, she could stay in and I would console her. We both missed class, and work, and there were whole days when I couldn't focus because she had an episode before I left, and I eas afraid she would harm herself. Ultimately, I do think I love her deeply, but since we've parted we've both done much better socially, and she seems more motivated and focused on her treatment. Obviously schizophrenia is a very different situation, and I hope OPs story doesn't go that way, but there are definitely some of the same things I recognized in myself in the first year of our relationship in this post. Hopefully OP can maintain the balance between support and life-long self-sacrifice.