Do you guys tell people you’re schizophrenic and how has that been if you answered yes? And no heck no? Lol
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It depends. I told my two closest friends and one treats me no differently, while the other has kind of drifted away. It is what it is. I also told my primary care doctor, but not my ortho surgeon. I havent told my mother or step father, who i only see once a year, and i dont plan to. They dont need to know, it wont benefit the relationship.
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I’m SZA - I tell peeps I’m Bipolar if I’m comfortable.
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I will probably tell next man I date that I have some mental illness but I won’t tell him I’ve been diagnosed schizophrenic.
I don’t think I’m schizophrenic really.
It’s probably just abuse people did to me and then drugs .
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I told one guy in a text. I don’t remember what he said. He stopped texting me in 2019.
Yeah I told my friends 5 of them, now I’m left with 0 friends, I told a coworker and some family friends. My pdoc advised against but I thought I’d be upfront. No longer though!
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Depression lol. There’s delusional depression and I say I’m indefinitely medicated.
Yeah sucks, I wish I never told so much stigma still. But lessons learnt
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Yeah I wish I never told that guy. I just want my parents to know which they do and my dad told his mom and sister, I don’t know if he told his brother. My family still treats me well. Oh and my stepmom knows too but she’s still nice to me.
My dads pretty cool and laid back about it, same with my boss but others still don’t get it, shame really
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That’s rough!
That your friends dumped you when they found out your diagnosis….
I understand if they were afraid of you but if you are not violent or a threat then I guess it’s the stigma.
I’m very gentle and not at all agressive or violent.
I’m not a threat but that often means you get disrespected and so forth.
I probably become timid in ugly way when I feel suppressed but I try to stick up for myself.
I stood up to those that raised me in past which I’m proud of.
My friends I had in person dumped me too but they were probably not my real friends.
I have real friends in spirit and in reality yet they are not a delusion 
yet they are not real in da flesh or even on internet as such.
Spirit friends 
but they exist.
I used a whip sometimes on my horse when she was alive but I spoke gently to her at the same time to encourage her to pass the scary truck or so.
We overcame so much together.
I was firm but loving with my dog I used to have but my dog I have now does what he want’s pretty much.
Anyway good wishes to us.
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I saw a woman at post office behavs so classy.
One woman seemed to act yuck in discrete way but woman handled it in classy way.
I was impressed.
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Same with me @bobbilly
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My closest friends know I have sz, others don’t. If I ever find a job and date again I would be hesitant to tell her I have sz, not on the first date for sure.
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Heck no. Ive told a handful of people of my mental health problems. 95% of people i know dont know.
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