Do You tell other people that You suffer and have a disorder or are You like me and dont say a word because of the fear of being judge?
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I tested the waters before I told my friends. They haven’t judged me in any way so I’m glad about that. It’s mainly shallow people I know, that I can’t tell.
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I don’t get out much, but when I do it doesn’t come up. My illness isn’t too severe though, so it isn’t necessary under most circumstances.
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If it comes up and is important and I “trust” the person. Ill be very open.
With strangers no.
UNLESS they say something rude stigmatizing and uneducated. At which point I rip their damn head off. Fight me scrubs
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I don’t tell anybody anymore. I suffered consequences when I told my family and a couple friends. My family thought I was possessed and my friend makes fun of me. It really sucks!!!
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I am so open, I wear a schizophrenia awareness bracelet everywhere, and I wear the matching t shirt once a week.
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I tend to tell people that I have depression, which I do as well. I only tell people this if I feel I need to explain my actions. When I did tell my family they didn’t believe or except it. That was hard, especially my Dad telling me that my experiences were nonsense. I learnt not to talk about it. 
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I’m pretty open about it. My friends and immediate family know (of course). I told my old boss since she was worried about me when I had to abruptly cease working to go to the hospital.
I may get a chance to open up to extended family this weekend. Wish me luck! 
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Depends who it is. I tell my family and anyone else close to me so they "understand " y I am the way I am. No one else needs to know.
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wow that is incredible! I don’t think I can ever do that. I would love to but the few times I tried, it turned out horrible.
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I’m pretty lucky to live in a very liberal and progressive city. I don’t face too much discrimination. It helps that I’m a girl, I’m mostly white, and my behavior isn’t too erratic. People generally find me non threatening.
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My mom, dad, and younger sister know, but otherwise I don’t share. I was recently put in a position where I had to talk about it in front of my oldest daughter, and I am still unhappy about that. I wish I had lied.
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Most everyone around me knows, but I don’t talk about it much. I don’t tell people I meet unless they are going thru the same thing. But I don’t really meet anyone but random strangers on the street or maybe at a fast food place. It really doesn’t come up very often.
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I have in the past when, when my mental state wasn’t very good. Now I would not mention that I have schizophrenia unless there was a good reason to. Which usually there wouldn’t be.
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I’d rather have it be known so I’m forgiven for the little things that seem wonky… makes me less paranoid.
I’m sorry I’ll feed you the word to contain me under… as you seem so inclined to need to do… I have schizophrenia and I’m comfortable with that.
I am a pretty normal fellow for the most part… my humor does rest squarely in the gutter… but I entertain a lot of self-mockery…
I say the strongest thing that can be done is to let your insecurities be known! It’s alleviating, because words really aren’t supposed to hurt in the end… they only do when they are forced to be wrestled with inside.
If I could rewrite the language, words of judgment and other negatives would be removed… you don’t need to learn non-judgmental optimism if it’s all you get to start with.
I don’t even want my sister to know. She just knows about my constant headaches, but I feel that telling her I have SZ would crush her.
Aommm Not so much, Only my girlfriend , close friends and my parents know about my illness, when you tell people that you have a mental illness you must be sure that they don’t have stigma, for example in my country (Colombia) people often think that a person with SZ is a dangerous person who goes for the world talking alone, with a gun, and screaming all the time , so in my case I have to be careful with that, I think our illness is a very private thing, but it doesn’t mean we have to hide it
I try and tell others but need to put it in a nice way x
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I dont tell people but my partner has to the nurses at the nursing home she works at. And my mother in law has to people before.
I only talk to my family about it, but I was so bad off for awhile that most people have found out about it one way or the other. Everyone has treated me pretty much the same since they found out.