Posted by Recently on February 20, 2009, at 20:17:15
...about your mental illness/personality disorder/emotional state/whatever you prefer to call the reason you are in therapy? Do they even know you are in therapy? In my life, only 2 people (one being my Significant Other) know about my lifelong struggle with depression (among many other things/diagnoses) and the fact that I go to therapy twice a week. My immediate family, for example, has been extremely unsupportive, so I do not plan on ever telling them I am back in therapy.
I told a few people about my situation many years ago, but I only got dismissive and sometimes downright mean responses. Sometimes I'm tired of struggling alone, and I think that maybe people knowing this aspect of my personality would allow them to understand me better. I guess, in the end, I prefer going it alone over humiliation and rejection by those around me.
I don't feel it is shameful to have depression/bpd/whatever, but it seems like all the people around me think this way. I just wish I did not feel like I had to keep the real me a secret. It's getting to be too hard....
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