Do you tell others about your mental illness or do you keep it a secret from most people?
Who do you tell and who do you don’t?
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I have personally just ordered a shirt from Amazon that pretty much advertises the fact that I have schizophrenia. I am not real concerned about random people on the street knowing that I have it. It’s probably not something I would wear to work if I was working though. I think I might not want to advertise it to employers. But for the most part, I don’t care if people know I have it.
I don’t bring it up in conversation or anything though.
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My whole family knows about my mental illness.
When I have a date, I do not tell anything, but surprisingly they always guess that I’m different from others.
I won’t tell anyone at work or in a party with people I don’t know.
Finally, I tell i’m sz to my relatives only.
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I only tell ppl very close to me. My friends and some cousins know. My uncles know as they visited me in mental hospital.
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I told my mom, my biological daughter (not my stepdaughters), my husband, one of my sisters and my best friend, but no one else. I keep my distance from the others. They would judge me over it.
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Ooooo that’s a good question! I have gone from telling everyone, to telling no one, to only telling the people closest to me
It also depends too on how much detail I go into. I think everyone in my life knows about my depression, but I don’t tell them about my sz unless I know I can trust them not to judge me negatively
And I’ve only told my best friend about what I suspect is NPD, I’m waiting to see what my pdoc says about that before I start bringing it up with people
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Only few people in my family know and a few friends back home. I don’t talk about it much. I have not even told the person I’m dating as yet. Because I am not sure about him as yet.
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Narcissistic personality disorder? Your Dr diagnosed you with that?
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@Aziz I think I meet the symptom criteria, I’m going to talk to my pdoc in our next appointment. It’s not until the end of October, until then I’m reserving judgement
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When I realized I did have Sz I was shocked and wanted to tell everyone that I had this terrible disease. But now I m no longer emotional and I don’t tell other people about my mental illness, but my two sisters, my husband, my son and two of my friends know my Sz because they sent me to hospitals and visited me.
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I tell my family, though not all the details.
I tell some friends. Though not all the details.
No one at my new job knows
Not even the manager
Although I lost my freedom pass (disability travel card) the other day and reported it lost to my supervisor
And she must now be wondering what is going on with me as I have no apparent physical disability.
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Please post a picture!
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I don’t bring it up because stupid people exploit me.
Or may take advantage of me
Or think I will kill them.
Or just enjoy that I’m ill. Play around with the fact.
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Lollll… I love it.
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Love it! I need one!!
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Just search for “F— schizophrenia shirt” on amazon. They had jackets and other items too I think.
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I just did! They’re sold out in Canada 
I was planning on getting a custom t-shirt for a friend’s bday, I might have to order myself one at the same time 
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My husband knows and he’s a big support.
My parents, siblings, and my dad’s girlfriend all know about my schizoaffective.
Everybody on Hubby’s side doesn’t know about my schizoaffective, but they’re starting to think I have bipolar or something. I might eventually tell them. IDK.
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I don’t really talk to too many people that it would come up with. If you’re just having a casual conversation it doesn’t really seem like “hey I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type” really slides in there very smoothly. My sister knows, my kids know, my ex knows, half the damn town knows I’m crazy because they all have scanners and 911 has been called to my house for attempted suicides god knows how many times, but they don’t know what’s wrong with me.
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