Posted by faraday on November 18, 2002, at 22:44:22
In reply to Re: To tell or not to tell- generational? , posted by Cece on November 17, 2002, at 15:23:27
I discussed my situation with friends who were coworkers before I ever went to a psychiatrist. My boss suggested that I see a psych once when I cried in his office. I still didn't go for a year at least after that, but finally after many friends suggested it I went. And after a month or so I told my boss, because I felt had affected my work, and I told him I would be going regularly to therapy. I worked in the department of psychiatry , my boss was a pharmacologist. I was 30 at the time. It was a horrible place to work for the workers mental health nontheless, my boss' boss has some sort of napolianic complex. My parents have been of the old school, psychiatry jokes, etc, but they are supportive now. I also finally went because my mom started taking AD, supposedly due to illness induced depression, so I felt like maybe it would be ok, from my parents point of view, for me to as well.
I'd like to disclose to everyone, cause I feel like it's such a big part of my life, if I don't talk about it, then I'm lying a bout something. But more than that, I'd like to not have it be a big part of my life, and have no need to disclose.
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