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In a general speaking sort of manner. Are most? Yay or nay?
I voted “no” because my family don’t make allowances for me having schizophrenia. I have to hide my bad days etc.
Everyone I’ve told has been very understanding and accepting. Though I haven’t told many people, including the school
My friends, yes. My family, not so.
It took time, but now most of my friends and family are supportive and understanding. I did have to cut a lot of people out of my life, though.
My family have always been supportive and understanding. Now I live in an assisted living center for the mentally ill, so I’m not looked at with the stigma that the general public can sometimes put on us. I’m fortunate to have the support I have.
My friends are very supportive.
Most people dont know about my condition anyways.
My aunt, grandma, dad, mom and 3 of my best friends know and are supportive of me
Friends are generally ok, but family is just not really comprehending that problems have developed to a point that I’m having difficulty with doing basic things.
They just expect me to be as helpful as I was pre diagnosis and they hand wave that the disease has anything to do with it, and just blame me for not having willpower and that I need to work harder.
I mean at some level that’s correct, but its also grossly unsympathetic and unhelpful. I mean if I say the same sort of stuff to them they get angry and defensive, like I have no basis to judge them.
I wish I knew how to make them respect my problems without just blaming me for my failures.
Friends probably just aren’t close enough to me to really be worth the trouble of trying to help me. I have very loose friendships. So I don’t notice a change.
Most people that know except for my ex boyfriend he was absolutely awful to me when he found out but he wasn’t very nice to begin with. I keep it to my family and relatives and they have been understanding about the schizophrenia. My dad told the people he works with and then I started working there later but they were wonderful and so supportive. He had to tell them because he had to keep missing days at the office to drive me to the psychiatrist and psychologist before I got my drivers license. As far as anyone else if they aren’t a medical professional I keep it to myself. It’s none of their business. I only plan on telling someone if I’m planning on getting married to them but currently I don’t even have a boyfriend so most people I talk to like at school or church don’t know
My family yes but everyone else no
Yes and No, had friends turn on me before
It’s hard to tell. I have the feeling that any self revelations will poison my standing with other people.
Nay, but other people with my problems understand me. My aunt said to me that it is impossible for others to understand why people don’t do things when you are depressed.
Some have been very supportive others have been furious about it and in denial.
My mum refuses the diagnosis of schizophrenia despite that it’s been given to me by seven or so psychiatrist.
She says I am just sensitive and have Aspergers.
She said there is so much stigma to schizophrenia.
She made me change disability employment agency because the one I was with had links to a dr team I had that diagnosed me as schizophrenic.
She wanted the employment agency to have me written down as Aspergers not schizophrenia and we had huge fights about it but she can be pretty scary so she won that time.
When it was worst I felt so alone and again my mum would go furious at me for hearing voices being delusional etc.
My friends left me.
I might have said strange things when I was delusional.
I regret being a bad friend.
I miss having friends but like to think I have friends in spirit.
I have a friend I email a few times a year with but that’s just not enough.
My brother just gave me a job walking his dogs so that’s very helpful to me.
My family I’m living with now seem more supportive but my family in Sweden have hate and denial and it’s like forbidden to talk about it and I think the father of my brothers in Sweden has told my brothers I’m the most disgusting ■■■■ of the earth because they don’t seem to want anything to do with me and I know he could say things…
X boyfriends have been accepting.
I have never had a guy break up with me for having schizophrenia.(not that I know of)
For behaving badly yes but not for having schizophrenia)
friends and family yes
Both my birth family and stepfamily know I have a mental illness. Neither put me down because of it, except perhaps my sister who has a quite negative take on the early years of my having a mental illness. My stepfamily are more proactive in supporting me.
Yes, friends and family are so understanding