interesting question...

[sprinklethief]

check out this post

now i've actually found myself in this situation many many times in the office since i've returned to work, and uncomfortable instances with people who don't know me... i know it shouldn't be such a big deal but how would any of you deal with that? i actually feel embarassed and kinda back away from the conversation. whenever someone catches me taking one of my eleventeen medications during the day and OF COURSE they have to fucking know i just blame it on my primary immune deficiency disorder and they smile and walk away...

i guess it's easier for people to grasp that you're going to die 20-30 years before them than the fact that you're completely and utterly drooling-on-yourself-trying-to-kill-people insane when unmedicated... wtf? it's really a difficult stigma, even when you keep it to yourself. especially the misconceptions about names of diseases and shit:

"bipolar? you're just really moody?" yeeeeah, that's it...

"schizophrenia? so you have like a bunch of personalities?" dude, not EVEN in the ballpark. that's a COMPLETLY DIFFERENT DISEASE!

"why don't you just snap out of it?" ::twitch:: yeeeeah... why don't i... if you could explain that you'd be a fucking milionare

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[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a good idea, as a general rule, to keep most of the people you work with at arms length... and out of your business. The less they know the better.

You may have to bribe the processors though... to keep your documents from going to the bottom of the stack... grease 'em.

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dood, i took a page out of the book of hawks and i bring them donuts and candy :)