I do as I think it helps ground me. I’d make a poll but I don’t know how 
I tell then that I go online and visit a mental illness support forum.
i dont give them details, as I am too paranoid.
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I tell them. It helps them think I am motivated for treatment (when the truth is really that y’all are MUCH more interesting than my Facebook friends).oh, wait, I have no Facebook friends. Or real friends.
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I created a poll for you @princess
Do you tell your mental health team you use this forum?
- Yes
- No
0 voters
Thanks @Moonbeam!
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Yeah I don’t givery too many details either 
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I’ve told them but i know they definitely will not check on me… They were actually surprised that there’s an international forum for schizophrenics… so they never heard of it before…
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I just like the fact that we are this strong online community and if I have a question I can come here and ask and relate to other people.
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I’m not sz but I’ve got some physcotic illness according to my pdoc. Cptsd with physcotic features I think it is at the moment. I suppose I just have to trust the pdoc in what she’s doing even though I don’t believe I have physcosis.
I’m a pretty easy patient so I’ve told my shrink and he doesn’t care either way. He’s much too busy and I’d suspect it’s the last place he’d like to end up at the end of a days work!
It’s good for you though! It’s nice to have some perspective and it’s nice to know that others have suffered similar things.
Not a bad thing in the scheme of things!
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I don’t tell mine but, I am paranoid that they know anyway.
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My clinician knows I use forums (I use several), but not which ones.
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I tell them I go on A forum but not which forum bc I’m paranoid and don’t want to be spied on lol
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I have not told them. I am too paranoid. I use 2 forums. This one and a Swedish. I do every now and then get bad paranoia and can’t write because I believe everything I write will end up on my pdoc’s desk and face book.
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Before I told mine I was real paranoid they knew who I was. My case manager jokingly said I was a princess and I took that as they knew. But I just decided to fight the paranoia and tell them and it made me feel a lot better. I still get paranoidone they read my posts even one of the patients called me a princess so I feel like everyone knows now! But I like it here and I’m not going to let it stopen me posting.
That must be a horrible feeling. I think pdocs have too much to do than to spy on us so I hope that helps you as its always lovely to see you post on here 
I told mine. At one point I was trying to remember a poem I had posted on this forum to repeat it to her, and couldn’t. I told her the site, and told her to login and my my password too.
She looks kinda surprised, but I told her what would she do with with the info- sneak online and post as me?
Nah, didn’t think so.
I had no secrets, and really believed she was on my side.
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i did tell them. their responses are rather negative. they said people in the forum are faking sz and all are lies.
I tell them I use “a mental health support forum”, but don’t tell them I use schizophrenia.com.
That’s not very nice. I’m sure some people are trolls but a lotime of people here are genuine. I’d say the majority. I’m not sz I’m cptsd with physcotic features ( i used to have dx sz ) so we have to remember that there are different sorts here.
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