I’ve been though 10+ jobs in 2 years, I’ve been at my current job for three months and everyone has figured out something is wrong with me but they don’t know what, I’m unmedicated so I’m not sure if I’ll get fired or not if I come out with it, Has anyone been though this? I think they think I’m a drug addict.
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could always say you have a brain injury lol
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Every time I’ve told an employer that I’m schizophrenic I’ve gotten fired.
Conveniently for something else small and unrelated, but none the less, fired.
You should get on some medication and you’ll probably be able to handle work better.
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No need to disclose that.
Life is hard, I guess it is what it is until the day my heart stops pumping blood.
Why are you unmedicated? You’ve been diagnosed, right? Does your pdoc know you’re off meds or did you come off on your own?
Do not disclose this personal info with them!
I’ve disclosed about my bipolar disorder at work and was treated like garbage.
If you need accommodations then this is a different story.
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You might as well tell them you have Ebola.
Mental illness is still highly stigmatized even today. If you run into an unmanageable psychotic episode, time to take ‘personal leave’ or ‘sick leave’ if available to you and be non-specific and just say you have a chronic illness.
Even if some of your colleagues are your best friends, I have found from personal experience that letting your guard down and admitting, even to a good friend, that you have a mental illness, will get around quicker than wildfire and your professional career is shot.
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Don’t tell and get medicated, what are you waiting for. You’ll thank yourself later
i had a job interview i was told was a sure thing but i was too honest and said i use to have a problem but was rediagnosed, the woman asked what it was i said i get anxious sometimes, she then asked what it was previously.
i should have just shot myself in the face 
i didnt get the job lol
still bothers me
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I’ve disclosed to two employers, and I was gone not long after disclosure. At one, they acted sympathetic, but ran my stress levels so high I had to quit. At the other, I went on disability before I could get fired.
Beware. They know they can’t fire you because of a disability, but they can make you miserable until you quit on your own. If I were you, I wouldn’t tell them.
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When I was working people figured out that was something wrong with me. Mostly they thought I was eccentric but I changed with a few months. When I told people that I thought was my friends. Things begin to change in how they treated me. When my boss find out ( he was understanding because he had bipolar). When it got I could not work he help me to work disability. I wished I didn’t confide to people that I had sz. There was one who became a really close friend. He would always say life throws a curve ball and I should only be myself.
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With schizophrenia I can volunteer and go to school but a full-time job is still in question for me. I would highly suggest taking your medication if you were to work.
I’ve figured out that people will treat you differently based on the light they view you in but I’m 100% sure I’m in simulated hell or I’m god. I’m changing world events, There is no possible way this existence is real, I know this sounds crazy but I might be the source of all existence. My thoughts manifest and change history.
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It is illegal to fire you because you have a disability. But they find ways around it like telling you your being fired for some other reason when they really dont want a schizophrenic employee. Look at what goldenrex said.
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I know, I’ve been though it so many times.
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theres quite a few of us here who have been god here, so youll fit right in lol.
So interesting that a decent portion of people with schizophrenia have believed they are god.
but at the end of the day youll hopefully come to realise its a delusion.
I just don’t know what to do because I can’t keep a job, So I’m asking questions I already have the answer too, I’m a sick pup, I think it’s about over.
Yeah I was a top notch jet engine mechanic but when sz kick in I lost the ability to trouble shoot and solve problems. Plus I had paranoid delusions which cost many problems. Basically I became unreliable. Which I think people used to help them look better.
When I requested fewer days at my last job due to depression I was treated like an outcast.
My hours were cut down more and more each week till I was eventually let go.
I don’t recommend disclosing MI to any employer.
There is a huge stigma revolving around the subject and most people will not understand or sympathize.