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Apr 23, 2014, 03:57 AM
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Hi Everyone,
I just want to thank everyone for writing in with their various problems. It makes me feel like I'm not alone. Where I live my illness is a well kept secret. Its always been like that but there is a cost to it. Psychiatrists, pharmacies, counselors all have to be a good distance from my hometown. I guess its pride and society's stigmatization. I worked for a long time in a school district as a counselor. Then it became to stressful so I opted to do other things. Now, I'm taking care of my elderly mother and on SSD. Has anyone else kept their illness such a secret.. sunshine45 
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Apr 23, 2014, 07:42 AM
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I did for years, I was to afraid of hospitalization if I was honest and there's no going back after you've admitted. Eventually I really had no choice. Welcome
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Apr 23, 2014, 09:25 AM
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I did at first. I think I was more in denial than not wanting others to know. There is also a great deal of stigmatized mental illness where I am from. Its becoming more acceptable I believe or maybe people just learned to desl with me im not quite sure. I think you will find a lot of people hide it. Once I accepted my illness I began to study it and looking online is where I found this forum. Psych central buddies got me through some of my weakest moments. I love many of them bc if it werent for them I would not be here today.
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Apr 23, 2014, 11:10 AM
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I've dealt with mental health issues since childhood. I was called weird a lot growing up, so I take great pains as an adult to hide my issues. I don't want to validate those long ago insults by having anyone nowadays thinking I'm weird. I even wouldn't tell my shrinks the full extent of things. But my most recent crisis has been the worst of my life and I've given up trying to hide things. I'm avoiding people like the plague because i know I can't pretend to be normal right now. Those closest to me know, but only my husband and my pdoc know the full extent of it.
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Apr 23, 2014, 05:14 PM
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I've kept mine a secret
I work in the oilpatch, and I am sure that if people knew I'd be an outcast I think that they would find it okay if I came in with syphillis, but mental illness... no way |
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