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Originally Posted by BPandMe
I need some advice. I was recently diagnosed with BP in August, yet only my husbands family knows, and my mother. I tried confiding in my brother, but he ranted about "it's all in your head"...arggg. Generally speaking, should I disclose my BP or is that just setting myself up for disaster? Because keeping this a secret is eating me up inside. Pleae help.
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It is a conceptualization problem, ie a problem with how you think of things in your mind. Your diagnosis is your private sensitive information rather than a secret, much less a dirty little secret. How does one decide when and how to disclose private sensitive information? According to the general rule that pertains to any sensitive information - on a need to know basis, as has already been mentioned above.
If you conceptualize this way, you may still make mistakes, as the person above who lost a job, so it is not a complete guarantee of smooth sailing, but it is a guarantee of your never feeling being eaten alive due to keeping secrets, since you won't be keeping secrets but rather will be safeguarding sensitive data.