On top of my Schizophrenia, I have a lot of other unrelated stress and anxiety in my life. How do I tell people about my condition? How do I tell them and explain to them everything going on? I’ve almost told my teacher once (he was pretty much my only friend in school at the time believe it or not) but I chickened out at the last second. How do I even begin to explain everything in a way that makes sense. In a way that’s not frustrating to me nor to the person I’m talking to. That seems impossible. There is SOOOOOOOO much that I can’t even begin to talk about without my friends and family running for the hills. Can any of you tell me how you confessed your condition to your family or friends? I think that would help me get a few ideas on how to tell people.
-Mouse
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
If you can get a therapist, tell them. I told mine that I deluded myself to be the Antichrist. Did she laugh or did the earth open up and swallow me? No. Nothing happened, except I felt better. Today, my med is kicking in and I don’t feel like anybody special.
yeah thanks. I’ll try and find a therapist. 
Best wishes on that 
Yeah I talked to my therapist about my paranoid delusions. People close to me knew I wasn’t well by the fear in my eyes, but I didn’t open up to them in details like I did to my therapist. I did share little bits of my fears to those close and they tried to reassure me, but I needed therapy.
Why do you want to tell people anything?
that didn’t help me. I don’t want to keep living a lie anymore. im always so guilty. my friends have no idea. its not fair to them or to me
It’s a good purge to get it out in the open. When you do, your audience can give you a reality check. Say, if I told you I could move a pencil with my mind and you said prove it, then I couldn’t do it. You’d be helping me in that case. It also has helped me to compare against other people’s delusions and find inconsistency. With that, then I know that nobody’s delusion is real, for they can’t all be.
Not all therapists are equal.
I’m feeling pretty good to have the one I have now.
Jayster
Once I know somebody well, and feel I can trust them I use the language “I hear voices” as it’s less stigmatised than the word “schizophrenia”. Sad but true. But I only confided in people I could trust when I was unwell. Now that I’m feeling better and more in control, I’m able to be more open about having schizophrenia as I’m comfortable breaking down the stigma.
I used to not care about the stigma and would tell anybody who would listen…that was a mistake! Judge carefully the character of the people you want to tell…therapists are good cuz they’ve generally heard it all before.
Around here, if you go to the welfare clinic, you get a therapist just out of school!
Jayster
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