Introduction: Why I Always Hid My Mental Illness
There was a time I was terrified of people learning about my sickness.
One would think otherwise, looking at the articles I have written over the past three years. But I was not always comfortable discussing my ‘illness’, an umbrella term for my clinical depression, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and panic disorder. In fact, I was petrified.
Silly as that feels now, back then I had several reasons: