Reply To: Openness about mental health

Thank you for that perspective. I agree that people aren’t all open about physical health. But you’ll probably agree with me that people are more open about it than about mental health. My question really is whether one should be as open about both.

To take a more extreme example, though I’m also talking about more mundane issues as well, if a person r’l has cancer I think he’s more likely to share that with friends (obviously not all people or all situations) than a person who r’l has schizophrenia is likely to share that information with friends or even extended family. Maybe another example is sharing that one needs some kind of surgery than sharing that one needs treatment for depression.