One thing I’m trying to get to grips with is notifying people of my diagnosis where I feel it is helpful to either party. My diagnosis is a fairly recent one, but having gone 30 years without the words to describe what I’d been experiencing, I’m quite keen to talk to people about it. I feel that by recognising my diagnosis and notifying others of it, it allows me to be more forgiving of myself when I find things tough and hopefully gives people a heads up where extra patience might be needed.
One of the things I was guilty of early on was over sharing, but now I wonder if I’m too vague when telling people (I’m working on the basis of if they are interested, they’ll ask questions).
So I suppose my question is this, if you tell people, how do you go about disclosing a diagnosis?
I’d be interested in reading your responses.
Thanks
