When I got psychosis 7 years back, it went completely undetected by my family… however the only thing they noticed was i used to forget to close doors and some depression…
However i could not hide it at work… that was the worst…
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When I am ill I can’t hide it. Have never worked but when I was a medical student it was pretty obvious.
How are you today @anon80629714?
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Let’s just say I managed to make two phone calls to NatWest bank without putting the phone down and crying like a baby cos I couldn’t understand a word they said 
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That is good 
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(Don’t know why I put a whale emoji there. Just thought it looked cool lol!)
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I like elephants 
my favourite animal so cute
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I quite like 
Emoji
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Cute. 
lion is cute tio
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No, i can’t hide my psychosis. People always notice my weird ideas and ask “are you crazy” and i usually say “yes i have papers that attest my madness”. just kidding 
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These are my favorites!
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I was able to “hide” the fact I was ill right up until I became completely psychotic. I didn’t realise I was ill though so wasn’t actually hiding anything.
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same here unable to hide it though i try very hard. in fact it poses a question that why am i hiding something and that something is psychosis. i know that i am hiding to protect myself and others. but its backfiring somehow. 
angry again 
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Hiding psychosis once I was in freefall with sz was a challenge to say the least. My grades were falling at uni, I couldn’t hold a conversation for more than a few minutes (because I could not speak), when I attempted to read the words were tripping off the pages and talking to me, friendships became less important, my family thought the worst. It was a terrible time as you can imagine.
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I was ill for three years and it wasn’t until the end that I was sectioned and my family got me help so I guess I hid it pretty well. I’m very passive and turn the other cheek so I didn’t act out as such. I did however withdraw and I didn’t work in that time. Some thought I was depressed and others that I simply ‘couldn’t be bothered’…
Today, I have nothing to hide…
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Yes because people think I’m weird anyway. I also kept a lot of things in my head so I probably appeared pretty “normal”.
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I’ve always been pretty good at appearing normal. When I was in nursing school, and when I was working as a nurse, my instructors and my bosses always suspected something was wrong, although they couldn’t put their finger on it. And I wasn’t giving them any hints, if I knew what was good for me.
It all came out in 1993, when one of my bosses suspected I was MI and ordered an MPPI on me and it showed that I was sza. This was relayed to the Board of Nursing and they suspended my nursing license indefinitely on that basis. I was never able to get it back.
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I think I’m pretty good at hiding it in front of people. My trick is try my best not react to what I see/hear in my head, especially if I’m out in public with people. I just sit there with a blank look on my face (as blank as I could make it) and not say anything. I’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years.
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If I see something sometimes I let people know. Other than that it’s mostly just me in my apartment going “What the f*ck?”
I started living alone 2 months ago but so far my neighbors tell me good things about me.
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Depends on how far gone I am. I convinced a lawyer and a psychologist I didn’t have schizophrenia (passed a psych exam, lied about not hearing voices) when I was hearing voices. That was after my first hospitalization.
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oh yes i was able to hide it
for 15 years nevertheless
however everyone new there is something wrong with me it was obvious
i now remember i saw horror and pity in the eyes of people looking at me
horror and pity at the same time
but i was alone all the time you can say i was abandoned
so its not like there was much opportunities for people to knew that i was receiving messages through tv for example
or that i thought im satan i never spoke to people about that
actually psychosis forbid me to talk about things that went through my mind
it was like i game for me
game i would lose if i spoke about those things
me too =( which was the worse. I am sure my colleagues and work mates know certain truth. But I was so freakishly, funny how no one in my friends ever realized I was ill. Anyway, I wanna think positive thoughts.
In my case, it is very rare to actually notice I am sick or having symptoms. Even my doc does not realize.