Well, since not in treatment I don't usually tell. I feel even stigmatized in the MH "community" since I refuse to subscribe to the traditional medical point of view (which is my problem with "educating public". Many will tell people us with issues "cannot work" and such. So I feel normals don't understand how hard it is for me to face seemigly normal situations with my anxiety and I cannot really tell I am struggling, because to them it's sign of weakness. People with issues told me I am a faker, because I would "have to be" on meds otherwise and that it is impossible to distract from "I wanna kill myself" by thrusting myself into reading on how post-modernism influenced the doctrine of humanitarian intervention or whatnot).

I don!t speak of my health concerns too. It is my pet peeve when people do. I guess I sat through too many b-day parties of my grandparents where surgeries and side effects of cholesterol meds were told in sickenick detail. I usually don't tell people I have bad back either.