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Originally Posted by GeorgiaGirl413
I generally do not share my diagnosis. I work full time though so don't have to deal with the question that you are dealing with. I think that most people would describe me as "difficult". I know it's because of my illness, but I doubt it would do much good to try and explain it to most people. My personal thoughts are that you carefully pick and choose who you tell.
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I'm in the same boat. I also work full-time and where I work, in an emergency department, there tends to be a stigma surrounding people with mental illness simply because when we see patients with a history of mental illness, they are often displaying the worst of their symptoms. My friends know about my diagnoses to varying degrees, as does my family, but I really don't talk about it much. I have to function as if there were nothing wrong, so I really don't talk about it that much. Sometimes, but not too much.