I just started dating someone, and I had to disclose pretty early my mental health issues because the “what do you do for work?” Question always leads to me explaining why I’m on a disability program.
The thing is, and this isn’t the first time— I told him I have bipolar. I’m always terrified someone is going to google “oh? What’s bpd?”
I feel like I had to pick an arguably less stigmatized illness, but obviously if this relationship progresses I’m going to have to come clean… he doesn’t know much about bipolar either, so he hasn’t questioned things.
Has anyone else done this? How do you talk to people about bpd when you have to.