Have you come out of the closet with your sz? I tell everyone I talk to that I have schizophrenia
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I talk about it sometimes.
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I’m very picky. Like at the cricket club most would know. I went psychotic there as a captain so the older people know me at my worst. New people though it gets tiring quickly explaining things all the time. What do you do for work? etc. So I’ve learned to be picky. Some I’m up front with and some I’m not. That works well for my lifestyle.
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All of my close and extended family knows and is supportive. Most of my close friends know and i am learning to confide my feelings to them. At work no one knows. I told some close colleages I go through blue and depressed stages but they do not know the full extent of what i’ve been through and my sz diagnosis. I help others when they confide and trust me with their mental health issues. There is definitely some parts of my life I dont feel at liberty telling though.
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I never volunteer the information. I’m pretty sure that a number of people at work can tell I have a mental illness or mental health issues but I seriously doubt they know what my diagnosis is. My bosses know I have schizophrenia, it never comes up in conversation though chances are they may think about it sometimes. In day to day life when I’m dealing with people I occasionally get that look on peoples faces when it dawns on them that something is “off”. I don’t get people being mean about it but they get a little condescending.
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I will never do that. And I have no interest in that. I don’t wear my mental illness as a badge.
Plus people can mess with you if you let people who are not trusted know about stuff like that.
Only a few friends and just my immediate family know.
For extended family like aunts or grandparents it’s a “chemical imbalance”
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In the start i didnt, and my grandma say i should not tell everyone, but its a big part of my life, i just tell, i dont care what others think, if i told it in the first place i could be free from judgmental people in my life later. Its kinda hard to go through, but im proud to be a little weird, crazy and diffrent.
And Many musicans wear a straitjacket in their Music videos anyways.
Yeah, good choice. Eminem ain’t exactly the poster boy for good mental health.
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I’ve told a select few, but I don’t advertise it. To meet me in passing, you’d never know.
I was extremely open about it for a while. I came back to that, think it was a step in processing things. I hardly tell new people about psychosis now, but i do tell people i have ptsd or i have had a hard time with some things or im in disability, because questions like “what work do you do?” comes up early here. Sometimes i just say im a mum though, or im looking for work.
In the start i was thinking it was very weird people becuse she always told me that, but she was psychotic as well. But then i become psychotic and i was put to a hospital. And everybody was very nice
And i didnt find them “weird” as my mom.
And im happy about experience it, so i didnt have to be judgemental for the rest of my life.
It was a little bit embarrassing in the start, becuse i had a delusion about being god and i had try to convince everybody around me that a was god, but i got hospitalized and got medicine, and then the delusion was gone and it was so awkward after.
But today i im just honest when people ask why i dont work or have a job.
I tell very few people.
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i also don’t discuss my diagnosis much except here on the forum.
it became taboo to talk about in my life.
judy
I try not too talk about it. People can be very judgemental. I just try to keep it too a certain group of people.
I do not disclose it to anybody.
When I was first diagnosed I didn’t know any better and told all my friends, and they never called me back
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All my friends know i take an injection for sz. They don’t have issues with it. We joke about it. Sometimes i think the whole town would know when i don’t take my medication.
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I told all my colleagues at work and my article was sent to several different departments. Over 600 professionals have read it on my Linkedin also. All my friends and family know I have schizophrenia. I even told two receptionists at the gym I go to. I have never met any discrimination.
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