Lately, about half the time, I've been feeling like I need to share my recent diagnosis for further healing. I've only shared this with my husband, but with everyone else in my life (close friends, parents and other family), there has been this nagging feeling like I should. I know everyone is different; I understand not everyone shares their diagnosis, or has to for that matter, but I'm curious if anyone has found it helpful or therapeutic to tell people--even the ones who weren't exactly supportive or 'all ears' in the past. I've been at my Mother's house a couple of times in the last two weeks. We get along fine enough, but nobody ever talks about mental illness, despite it running rampant in my family. My family is essentially hush hush about it all, but even so, a couple of times I've come close to sitting her down and telling her about my recent visits, diagnosis, and the medication I'm taking. I didn't, because I just couldn't get the words to formulate, and then I questioned myself over whether or not it'd be 'helpful' to my healing. I know there's no wrong or right answer, but what do you guys think? Is it necessary for people to know if I'm getting things under control and have support from a loving spouse? If she didn't connect the dots with my behavior before (my brother and Aunt both have BD), does she really need to know now?