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Has MDD ever put you in bad company?

Has anybody ever discovered your MDD and was anything but pleasant? Were their many, or just a few?

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Permalink Reply by Silver Swan on June 7, 2018 at 12:43pm

It's just, I feel trapped—now that my mom found out about my fantasizing. Our relationship hasn't been the same since. I have no idea what's she's going to do to me. I spent years struggling to find myself out there. I've been in and out of so many jobs. I hate to think she doesn't trust that I can be independent and self-supportive. It's so stupid! I'm already 32 years old. Everybody else I know have lives. I'm also paranoid that she'll deny any relationship or career opportunity I go for, because of what she thinks of my mental health. She can be such a control freak. I had Goals!

Theaxe said:

No one has discovered mine due to my actions, but I have in the past had people say, "What are you grinning about?" when I was just thinking of my current self-made movie and myself as a character. I shrugged it off by saying I just thought of something funny.

I have outed myself to two people, and the response I had from them was good. I told them both about three years ago, and it has since been dropped. I mentioned it on my social media a few times but no one has really clued in that I'm talking about myself having MD.

I've noticed that when people don't have it, they really don't get it, and it's worth just ignoring.