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Anyway this was an interesting thread. I enjoy hearing other's experiences as it makes me feel less strange. I'm wondering why you feel the need to self-disclose in work though fishsandwich?
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I want to be able to explain it to my friends and family! I've always failed at that. I don't care about disclosing it at work - I work in other professions now and it's completely irrelevant.
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My T showed me that he understood, and I have no need to hear if he knows from personal experience or just professional experience.
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He sounds like a fantastic therapist!
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I want to work in mental health but I don't think that I'd be able to self-disclose. It might help some people e.g. they can see you as a role model "If fishsandwich got through it, so can I" etc, or it could backfire and they could think that there's something wrong with them for them to struggle so much. I have low self-esteem and if I saw someone successful who I knew heard voices, I'd think "well they hear voices and are still successful so why am I such a mess?!" and beat myself up about it. But maybe that's just me?
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When I was working in mental health, I found that it certainly helped some people to know about my diagnosis. It wasn't particularly useful to others, though. I ended up telling people "as needed", but I always made sure to tell them what a hell it was (and remains), too.
What kind of mental health care do you want to do?