How good are you at masking symptoms?

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I try as much as I can to act normal even when it seems like my symptoms are taking over. It’s quite hard at times but the fear of being stigmatized keeps me in check.

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I used to work at a bank while unmedicated.

Handling hundreds of thousands of dollars of people’s life savings.

All while bugging out for most of it.

I like to think I got one over on everyone-- colleagues and customers included.

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I’m very good at masking my symptoms.

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4

I just don’t talk about my fears and issues, even when I’m afraid. People just don’t understand.

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I mask everyday. I don’t want to worry people, fiancée and mother can usually see through it though.

Here is where I take it down, where I can express and let out some of my more mental experiences. This is a safe space

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I have various coping methods that disguise my troubling symptoms, or help me work around them. I don’t know whether this is considered masking or not. I do act pretty weird, enough so that NTs notice and think I’m “eccentric” in some indescribable way. They mostly find me entertaining, though. So I guess I mask my disabling symptoms, but not my odd ones.

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I rewired my brain to my desired effect, peace engulfed me

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I function very well and take care of myself but I’ll admit I don’t know how I pull it off somedays :neutral_face:

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When I have a voices episode or paranoia or mood swings I try to hide it from my husband but he eventually finds out most of the time because I can’t hide the expression on my face.

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10

Sometimes I think I mask it too well

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I worked every time I was ill, one customer noticed and sent me to their corporate Doctor, they sent right to hospital, so even though I thought no one knew, they sense it

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No one except head doctors ever ‘notices’ that I’m crazy. And even when I divulge the fact to friends they refuse to believe me.

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I am learning how to mask mine… it’s hard but I just try to act normal around ppl…

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The only symptom I can’t hide is my trembling hands. But that’s not exactly a symptom. It’s a side effect of medication. It makes me feel a bit unconfortable, but I’m not worried about that because it’s not necessarily a symptom of mental illness.

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I can speak to anyone, and they would not know that I suffered psychosis - I don’t hear voices or see hallucinations

I’m very good at speaking and masking symptoms - the symptoms I have now are mostly negative

The Docs on the psychiatric ward said I ‘was highly intelligent in the way I talked around various issues’

I was really good at making excuses, and offering a different perspective on why I was seen doing odd things

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I’m pretty good at masking save for my stutter and shaking hands, but usually I dont talk and hide my hands. When it gets real bad I can’t hide it at all.

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I’m very good at pretending everything is fine with me no matter what kind of turmoil is happening in my mind.

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Some of my symptoms no one knows about, but other symptoms I can’t hide.

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I am good at doing it to a point.

The trouble I have is I have hidden them for so long, things usually reach crisis point seemingly very quickly to other people as I have to be so secretive about things as there is a lot at stake.

You can call it avoiding stigma, or whatever. But you won’t catch me disclosing much these days to anyone really, as I learnt the hard way that you can lose people in your life if you’re not careful

I have been doing this since I was 16/17 years old. I know how to cope with things, and generally when to make some noise to professionals if things are getting shaky.

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On meds no one can know that I have sz unless I tell them.