 |
| FAQ/Help |
| Calendar |
| Search |
|
Elder
Member Since Jun 2009
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 5,146
15 |
May 19, 2010 at 06:26 PM
#1
Just wondering if anyone shares with their friends and family members that you are a member of PC.
Myself , I won't even add it to favorites . Scared someone will find out what I'm really like. 
__________________
|
|
 Reply With Quote
|
 lynn P., susan888
|
|
Legendary
Member Since Feb 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 12,269
(SuperPoster!)
15 2,432 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 06:33 PM
#2
Yes i keep it a secret. The only ones who know are my girls. The initial reason I came here was for a huge relationship problem and no one IRL knows about this, nor do I want them reading everything. In a way it's kind of like a journal - private.... for me anyways.
__________________  This is our little cutie Bella  *Practice on-line safety. *Cheaters - collecting jar of hearts. *Make your mess, your message. *"Be the change you want to see" (Gandhi) |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Veteran Member
Member Since Dec 2009
Location: 12345
Posts: 673
14 24 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 06:47 PM
#3
My T knows, she recommended PC but I don't tell people about this, not even friends. This is my safe place where I can be myself.
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
lynn P., Naturefreak
|
|
Moderator
Community Support Team 
Member Since Mar 2006
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 11,369
18 76 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 07:10 PM
#4
I tell people about it. Heck I even wear the T-shirt. But I'm totally open about talking about my MH experiences, I figure the only way to reduce stigma is to talk about it.
Heck I even have it listed on my resume that I'm a systems adminstrator for another mental health support site, under volunteer activities. --splitimage __________________  "I danced in the morning when the world was begun. I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun". From my favourite hymn. "If you see the wonder in a fairy tale, you can take the future even if you fail." Abba 
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak, notz
|
|
Grand Member
Member Since Jan 2010
Location: These United States
Posts: 825
14 3 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 07:14 PM
#5
Total secret. If my family figured it out, I would not be on here.
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak, susan888
|
|
Poohbah
Member Since Jun 2008
Location: In My Head
Posts: 1,396
16 196 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 07:19 PM
#6
Secret here to babysteps. My friends and my husband know the extent of my mental illness, but sometimes my problems are with them which is one reason I keep it a secret. Another is I feel safe to express things here. I feel like psychcentral is all mine. My secret place I go to talk about my problems to people who understand them. Really understand them. Not just listening to me and me feeling like a whinner.
__________________ Dx: PTSD, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Personality Disorder. A Do Da Quantkeeah A-da-nv-do |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Member
Member Since Mar 2010
Location: Alabama , United States
Posts: 248
14 |
May 19, 2010 at 07:19 PM
#7
I have actually mentioned it to friends. My Name on my XBox account says "Bipolar" in it so that isnt a secret. My wife knows about PC and at one point contemplated joining. I tried time and time again to get her on here so that she can better understand what I go through, but I think ultimately she decided not to. She was afraid that it would violate me in what I say. Also afraid that people would back and forth between us. (We met in Chat on the internet so that is where that stemmed from).
__________________ “Whatever you are, be a good one.” - Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2002
Location: NW Arkansas
Posts: 3,734
21 14 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 07:21 PM
#8
My parents know because I access it through their computers. I told my T about it but I don't know if she comes here or not I'd rather not know. I haven't told me extended family but then again we just don't talk about my MH.
Jan __________________ I appreciate long walks especially when taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Poohbah
Member Since Sep 2008
Location: SanFrancisco BayArea, California
Posts: 1,404
15 |
May 19, 2010 at 08:03 PM
#9
Yes.
I talk openly and rather proudly about PC. I have suggested to other's who have expressed their struggles & issues to check out the site and witness for themselves the help that overflows here, (don't know if they have visited, or joined). The way I see it, there's not a damn thing wrong with obtaining help for self. And PC is a great place to gets. It's a nice thought, though, to imagine that someone had found a sense of relief here because of my mentioning the site....  Shangrala 
__________________  I U!
Last edited by Shangrala; May 19, 2010 at 08:34 PM.. |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Grand Poohbah
Member Since Sep 2007
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 1,728
16 |
May 19, 2010 at 08:13 PM
#10
Its a secret. I have no one in my life besides my husband and son, well - and my sister but that's a long story. Anyway, no one knows about it. My husband knows I spend time on a forum, but he assumes its political as that is what I have frequented in the past.
__________________ "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?" Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 p 55-56 |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
LaCaBe, Naturefreak, susan888
|
|
Pet Lady of Psychcentral
Member Since Sep 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 4,564
18 71 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 09:01 PM
#11
People in my life know I am a member of a MI forum but they do not know which one or my user name. I am on the PC/Facebook interface.
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
who reads this, anyway?
Member Since Oct 2006
Location: Appalachia
Posts: 9,968
17 |
May 19, 2010 at 09:17 PM
#12
It is secret except my son does know.
__________________ The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. anonymous |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Grand Poohbah
Member Since Feb 2009
Location: usa
Posts: 1,730
15 183 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 09:21 PM
#13
I don't openly talk about it much, but I don't really keep it a secret. I do tell my hubby about it, and the members of my support group. I have mentioned it in passing to my T.
PC was instrumental in my initial adjustment to being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. People here let me vent without judgment, there is something special about sharing with people who KNOW what you are going through. __________________ "Unipolar is boring! Go Bipolar!"  Amazonmom is not putting up with bad behavior any more. |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Elder
Member Since Apr 2003
Posts: 5,584
21 197 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 09:31 PM
#14
It is mostly a secret that I visit PC. My family doesn't know but then they don't know that I may have some issues.. Other than maybe they think I am just nuts. Maybe I am. I have mentioned a few online friends to maybe take a look here. Don't think I ever told them the name I use here.. I really don't want anyone that knows me to read anything that I might write here. SO with all that said, I pretty much keep PC a secret... Not that I care they should think/know I have issues. I just don't want them reading what little I do write here.....
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Elder
Member Since Jun 2009
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 5,146
15 |
May 19, 2010 at 09:33 PM
#15
Quote:
Very good point splitimage
__________________
|
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Elder
Member Since Jun 2009
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 5,146
15 |
May 19, 2010 at 09:35 PM
#16
Quote:
Good for you Mary.
__________________
|
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Legendary
Member Since Aug 2007
Location: West of Tampa Bay, East of the Gulf of Mexico
Posts: 14,352
(SuperPoster!)
16 1,021 hugs
given |
May 19, 2010 at 09:38 PM
#17
I keep it private, a little different from a secret.
|
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
May 19, 2010 at 10:01 PM
#18
I do not talk to many people. Those I do talk to know. Heck, when you have been unhinged for as long as I have I doubt anyone can say anything I have not already heard. Besides, there is nothing wrong with trying to help yourself. If someone wants to have a little fun at my expense, I hope they enjoy it cause their life cannot be a whole lot better than mine.
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak, perpetuallysad
|
|
Grand Member
Member Since Apr 2010
Location: Atmosphere
Posts: 943
14 |
May 20, 2010 at 02:05 AM
#19
It's my safe place so yes I absolutely do keep it secret
__________________ "Tear down the wall"  |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
|
Wisest Elder Ever
Member Since Feb 2006
Location: South Africa
Posts: 67,808
(SuperPoster!)
18 1,653 hugs
given |
May 20, 2010 at 02:21 AM
#20
Like Echoes, I keep it private rather than a secret. My husband and son openly know about it. I chat to my husband about some experiences here and my son even helps me in games sometimes. But I don't talk about it freely to anyone else. And, this is selfish of me, but I would never recommend the site to anyone I know in real life as I don't want my identity discovered. This is my safe place and I love my anonymity here.
__________________  Crying isn't a sign of weakness. It's a sign of having tried too hard to be strong for too long. |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Naturefreak
|
| Reply |
This is an old thread. You probably should not post your reply to it, as the original poster is unlikely to see it.|
|
My Support Forums is the online community that was originally begun as the Psych Central Forums in 2001. It now runs as an independent self-help support group community for mental health, personality, and psychological issues and is overseen by a group of dedicated, caring volunteers from around the world.
Depression is not a weakness ...... it is a sign that you have been strong for too long. 
Linear Mode
