My advice on this is to be really cautious. There are people that you just don't tell because there are a lot of prejudice people and there is a huge stigam.

When I was first diagnosed I was struggling at work. And my diagnosis gave me answers to my struggle. So, I disclosed in hopes to work out accomidations and that made everything worse. I work in health care, by the way, so you'd think that people are understanding. No, not really. It doesn't matter. A registered nurse (who was a boss at the time,) even told me that when I come to work I need to leave my bipolar at the door and be cheerful, because everyone has bad days.

The people who know are the "need to know basis" people. My husband, my mother-in-law (who lives with me and also has bipolar,) and my doctors. I never even bothered to tell my dad or my aunts or cousins. There's really no point to tell people who watched you struggle your whole life and just belittled you instead of try to help. I have one friend who knows who doesn't "believe" in mental illness, so we don't talk about it.