[NeuroBeautiful]

I have mostly not been open. My relatives don't know I have a diagnosis, nor do my immediate family even know the multiple diagnosis I have.

At school and work I think people see me as the one prone to depression or the one who seems to be constantly worrying. At least in grade school, I was told by teachers "chill" "calm down" etc But maybe they saw it as me having a hard time coping with stress rather than an illness. At the time I wasn't diagnosed with anything anyway. It was only until college when u got my first diagnosis.
I told a few friends alone with friends I've made through support groups and such. That's actually a source of a lot of my friendships.

The job I had over the summer was for "at risk youth" and really whether sone of us went to therapy or not, we all have tendencies for depression and anxiety. On the last day a lot of us were open about depression. But I don't know if they meant if clinically but still, we are ages 18-24 , low income inner city women so....we all faced our battles.

There was one friend, whom I told on the very last day of work that I was diagnosed with bipolar, depression, anxiety and ptsd.

When I think about it, I only told 1 offline friend about the bpd diagnosis. I usually leave it out and say the other ones.