Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness Support

[Creed of Heresy]

When and how do you tell a new lover? It's different each time. Do you tell your landlord? Business relations? People you network with? When and what do you tell your family? A new friend? Your neighbor?

In order: After the third date, and carefully. No, it's none of their business. No, it's none of their business. Yes, but carefully. Immediately, and completely straightforward as you can, and if they can't accept it then they aren't worth calling "family." Yes. No, it's none of their business unless you're friends, in which case, yes.

I get mostly pissed off when I mention having schizophrenia and the first reaction people have is to take a step back. Or to make some allusion to MPD. A: My schizophrenia doesn't affect anyone else, and most people with schizophrenia can claim the exact same thing. B: Schizophrenia is not MPD. And I'm getting really sick of people generalizing anyone who seems unhinged as schizophrenic, regardless of whether or not they genuinely have the condition.

As far as people speaking on mental illnesses goes...mental illnesses are very subjective, so they're very hard to nail down, so in technicality many psychologists and psychiatrists, if not all of them in fact, could be considered "speaking in ignorance," even though they study the conditions of them far more than anyone else does.

I just want to be cured. The lengths I would go to being cured of all the mental diseases I've been saddled with are far, indeed. I willingly ingested a targeted neurotoxin to stop the effects of MPD on me. What does that tell you?

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I suppose I'm a little inexperienced. Mental illness is encouraged in my line of work.

...You're paid to argue with apologists, then? *rimshot*