never thought there’d be internships for people with sz, i watched the Live feed and it was very positive.
That’s a nice thing for her to do. My psychologist told me not to tell the university or potential employers that I have schizophrenia because the stigma is still there. On some of the applications they specifically asked if you have a disability and listed schizophrenia as one of the disabilities. I had to put prefer not to say for all of those applications. It’s seriously none of their business if I can do the job. In the applications it was all like o please let us know if you have a disability so that it can make our business look better for knowingly hiring people with disabilities but I was like no way in hell that will kill my career before it starts. Maybe I’ll tell people after I retire but otherwise none of their business
You seem smart and high functioning. Be like Elyn Saks and don’t tell anyone until you’re retired or tenured. Just keep it to family and your closest friends.
My employer knows I have Sz. Was kinda hard to hide it when I was giving them hospital notes explaining my absence.
Only HR know and my manager. I think it helped that I proved my worth before this happened.
It’s not something I’ll share. I did to the employer when I went psychotic. Bit hard to hide in a business of 300 people or so. Still. I wouldn’t share till I had too. I had a gran mal coming off of xanax when in the states. I did that at work and it was too hard to hide!
I too had proven my worth till then so it wasn’t a bad thing! Still. Keep your cards close to your chest is the thing with any card game!
And sz is very much a political card game!
i’m trying to start a business and so i’ll be my own boss making my own money so the only person i need to disclose my illness to is myself 
its self employment
@firemonkey whats this about an internship? i had to email them lol
https://www.sws.ngo/internships?fbclid=IwAR20vLEjXsyfilR0fF3-sRQxztDYwxSWxqTOF6NfULl0YmiPKw3RTytrcMw
Thanks insidemind. Without the meds I wouldn’t be able to do anything but luckily for me at a highenough dose I stop hallucinating so I’ve been able to at least try to get my life back on track
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