I had a bad experience at work that wasn't about mental illness but still it made me want to hide my problems after that. I had come to work at times with bruises and black eyes and I was alone in a room with another RN I worked with and she asked me if I was being abused. I told her yes, I thought she would keep that in confidence but she didn't. She told our assistant manager about it. Then the asst mgr went home and told her husband who happened to be good friends with my boyfriend, my abuser. Her husband told my BF that I was talking at work about him abusing me and he should lighten up. He probably had good intentions but my BF never mentioned it until one night when I had had gone to bed and then my BF came running in the room and told me and started beating me in the head and said if he was going to be called an abuser he was going to act like one.

So I learned people at work do not keep things said confidential even they should.