| Whom do you tell about your diagnosis in real-life besides medical staff? |
| I am not mentally ill, but I like answering polls! |
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 Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 11:14 pm
If you have a mental illness, do you tell people about your diagnosis in real life? Whom do you choose to tell and why? Why would you choose not to tell someone?
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 8:57 am
I'll talk about it with people on Gaia because I'm never going to meet them but apart from that not many people. There was only a handful of people in my school who got anywhere close to what was really going on (I left on friday hooray). Apart from that some of my friends know but I'm very selective about who I'll talk to about it, I'll only talk to people who I think are pretty likely to understand, people who I know have had problems themselves. Mostly its a subject that never comes up in group conversation but if it does I tend to just stay quiet. Its annoying in a way because people tend to think I'm just weird, lazy and moody which gives them a right to lecture me but I'd rather have it that way. Of the people I trust I'll tell them things if they ask pretty often but there are only three people I'd actually come forward and talk about my problems with and only one I feel comfortable talking to in a crisis.
Apart from that there's the selection of people who know because they had to really: parents (although I hate talking about things with them), teachers, doctors. None of my extended family know although I think they may have guessed by now. There's several depressives among them.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:31 am
Mostly I tell people in my partial hospitalization program. (Group therapy for people who don't need to be hospitalized.) I feel since they've gone through alot, they'd be more understanding. Other than that I tell my mother. I keep locked up otherwise, other than just saying i have an anxiety dissorder. I think even in group I lock up a little bit. I get out more about me in journaling group than any other time. What I'd really like is a close female friend to talk to. I find it easier to disscuss these things with women. They seem to be comforting.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:23 pm
i just tell close friends and of course my parents know.....and my friends on gaia....otherwise everyone else thinks im just plain weird and s**t....but thats ok....id rather have them think that than kno the truth and spread rumors about that...so its all good...but yea
*~*kira*~*
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:30 am
i tell my mum and my close friends, i won't tel my dad because he'll think i'm just exxagerating, or playing a fool or something. To him, mental illnesses do not exist.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:36 pm
My parents know, my close friends, my professors if it's going to affect my performance in class, etc. I don't tell my coworkers (unless they're also good friends) and especially not my employers. I'm a lot more open about it online.
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:02 pm
I had to go to the hospital for my mental illness earlier this year, so I had to tell my professors about it.
Some of my close friends know (not a lot of them), and my parents. *shrugs a bit*
Not too many people know.
That's all.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:57 pm
All of my friends know somethings wrong, but I've only opened up to two of them... I tell my mum what my Doctor says, but she says it's silly (she thinks I'm just lazy) but she still pays for me to go see my Doctor and pays for my pillies.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:16 pm
Just friends and *close* family--some of my cousins are a little too into the family drama and whatnot. And ironically, that's the side of my family with the rampant mental illness, everything from depression to OCD to anorexia to schizophrenia. I can't believe my cousins are actually breeding... stressed
Anyways, I'll tell coworkers and classmates/instructors if I have to--I had to tell my boss once that I was having a panic attack. He didn't really get it, but he did at least try to be compassionate. I think he was just worried I was going to completely freak out (I didn't quite do that this time, I just sat still and put my hands over my face to stop hyperventilating).
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:40 pm
I didn't have a choice in my family finding out about my diagnosis, the all had to experience the episode I went through so they needed an explanation.
My close friends all know as well since I found it was the easiest explanation for my gap in progress of my life after school. Luckily I rebounded fairly well after the episode into a traineeship (a job), and as far as I know most people don't consider the condition much now. Although I once had a friend give me some weird ideas on what they thought Pyschosis was like, when he actually seemed to be comparing it to issues he had himself. Although that was after I started communicating a lot of stress I was experiencing to him.
These days the people who have the most concern about my condition are my parent's, and it has started to become irritating so I want to move out. (just have to finish getting a degree and a job first sad )
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:12 am
Smart Alex If you have a mental illness, do you tell people about your diagnosis in real life? Whom do you choose to tell and why? Why would you choose not to tell someone? I dont tell anyone about my mental issues, i have actually recently told a friend who also has problems, but i trust him, he wont tell anyone...
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 2:33 am
I only talk about it with close friends. And on Gaia and chats, etc.
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:42 pm
I feel comfortable telling Gaians in the Mental Issues guilds that I participate in. No one other than that. Although, my mother does know, and so does my best friend, because I had to tell her, or else I don't have anyone to talk to. So those are the people that know.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:08 pm
I only tell my close friends, and my father. I don't live with my father, so its more comfortable than telling my mother.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:54 pm
My family knows and I have opened up to 2 friends about it. I have never been formally diagnosed altho I did have meds prescribed for me after my first panic attack. Other than that people know somethings not right but I dont go into details
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