- Yes
- Not really
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They ask how I am doing like they would anyone else, but never ask how I am doing with my symptoms of sz.
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It’s funny that you bring up this topic. Asking someone “how are you” is usually just a polite way of saying “hello”. One time a checker at a grocery store asked me; “How are you?” I replied honestly: “It hasn’t been a good day, I’ve had to work on some problems and things haven’t gone especially well.” She became very quiet. She gave me an ugly stare. She handed me my receipt and said “have a nice day” in a very mechanical way. I was only supposed to say “fine”, I wasn’t supposed to actually answer her question.
I don’t know if that’s what you mean. But sure, when people ask “how are you” they don’t actually want an answer. I never ask anyone “how are you” unless I’m prepared to hear the full truth and nothing but the truth.
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Yes. Many out of courtesy, an italian friend of mine spent a year or so in my country and told me it was like being in the 1800s, everyone was so polite and with manners. I disagree with her but I’ve never really lived anywhere else. I have a few people who ask me that for real and not just as an “hello” as @raff228 said.
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I’ve got a small circle of friends who ask about my symptoms on a regular basis. The others, only acquaintances, mostly ignore me or reply briefly when I open a discussion thread with them - I get the feeling they’re reluctant about talking to a schizophrenic…
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Not sure if it is my personality but people with respond to me just not initiate conversations with me.
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Some people do ask me how I am. Some ask in a funny way…as if to ask…how sane are you lately? I prefer when people ask about my general well being and physical health. I do not like to reply to questions regarding my mental health.
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If only people were that honest 
Yes it would have been more acceptable than getting “that look” and “that tone” when they try to ask how I’m doing…specifically those who knows about my MI
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Yes people at work ask either out of general politeness and pleasantry or because they know I had a breakdown and are genuinely interested in an honest answer.
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My mom tried to emphasize to me to keep it quiet that I was sz. Also I think many jobs could discriminate me based on it so I haven’t really told that many people. Except when I was psychotic I told everybody at my university I was attending because I didn’t think about it. So maybe a lot of people know. Maybe that is why they are still friends with me on facebook so they can say that have a sz friend.
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The mental health team at the depot clinic ask. It doesn’t mean much though when I expanded beyond the usual,evasive, “so so”/“not bad” recently I was met with deafening silence.
They’re really not that interested. As for family they seldom ask.
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I was medically boarded from the firm I used to work with. The company’s HR dept handled the process. The report that I got from the Psychiatrist which I handed in said that I had paranoid schizophrenia. So HR knew, all the bosses and their secretaries knew as well as my co-workers. Everybody who knew ask about my health but I know what they actually wanted to know was my mental state. Outside of the work I never tell anybody I have a MI. The only people who knows is my closest family and most of them don’t have any insight.
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That sounds good I hope I can get a job where people know and are accepting of my mental illness.
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