Wow, this thread blows me away. I have always kept my secrets well hidden. It has become more difficult as my depression became very severe and I needed a leave. No I am asking for accomodations for the depression, PTSD and dissociation. I feel frightened. I agree that ugly people like to use it against us. I also think it is their own fear. I have trouble saying that I have a mental illness. Cripes, we all have something and as faver said, could be incontinence, diabetes, lupus etc. We are cruel to eachother because we fear we will "be like them"