How many of you have decent jobs where you are productive and you make decent money? Any doctors, professors, engineers etc. here (particularly with a psychiatric history or psych. diagnoses)?
Have you ever heard of people losing jobs because they disclosed their psych. history or diagnoses? Where do you have to disclose these things (on an particular applications, for jobs etc.)? How do they affect life in general?
I can't pretend that I don't feel scared. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I feel I'll be stigmatised and called a nut (though there are a lot of "normal" people out there who are way worse than I am) and that every move of mine will be analysed and scrutinised, anything I say that people don't like can be attributed to my psych. labels. It's an awful feeling.
Opinions from people of different countries would be nice.
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