Just looking for advice or if anyone has similar feelings. I am 26 and semi recently diagnosed with Bipolar 1, BPD, ocd, and PTSD. It’s been roughly a year and my journey to find the right meds has been terrible so far, I am yet to be stable for a full month. That being said I was previously working in corporate America until my first big mental break. Now I’m working as a server and I find it almost embarrassing when family or friends ask me what I am up to or how work is going. Like I feel the need to lie or just brush around it because it’s sort of triggering and a lot of people don’t realize that.

Being able to even work as a server is a big feat for me and a personal win but I feel like everyone on the outside and stuff just thinks less of me for it. Idk maybe this is just a vent because I know it’s dumb to be embarrassed or ashamed of a mental illness that I can’t control but it’s such a stigma :/. Lmk.