Throwaway account, thought this was interesting. I’m schizophrenic and the people in my life don’t know, I’m also unmedicated. This is bad on it’s own, however both my family and a number of my friends rely on me or look up to me as a kind of support system. I frequently end up acting as the therapist for people that see me as someone who has their shit together.

In reality (lol), I have visual and auditory hallucinations that are incredibly intrusive; I never wear my glasses and people believe that my hearing isn’t the best, but in reality I don’t want people thinking I’m looking at or hearing stuff that isn’t there. I’ve been terrified of what might happen if anyone in my life found out, so I always made sure to do my best to hide the more tell-tale symptoms.