Hey, what's up y'all, I'm Rachel Star. So, the question I'm getting a lot is, Rachel, how do you tell people you are schizophrenic? Alright, first off, telling people you have schizophrenia or bipolar or any other mental disorder is your business. Okay, so you don't need to feel like you have to tell anybody. The exception to that being, if you are in danger, maybe you've hurting yourself for whatever or you're in danger of hurting someone else and you need to speak up, but hey, by the way, I know that. So, first of all, don't feel like you have to tell people, alright? That's something private. It's your business. Okay? So, other than my exception to the rule, how do you tell people? First of all, my thing is like, do you know, you don't need to run around telling everybody. Don't feel like you need to, you know? If you don't feel comfortable telling your friends, then don't. And when you feel like you're close enough to tell that person, then do. You know, and we live in like the age of social media, so it's pretty easy to tell people nowadays, because like, with me, if we become Facebook friends, like I post a lot of video about it, or like repost articles. So I kind of like, you know, like any time a friend like posts will say a lot of articles on heart disease. I assume maybe they have problems with that or like someone in their family does, or you know, somehow they've been touched by it. So I kind of like think it's really easy to break the ice nowadays if you're like Facebook friends with people, Twitter friends or whatever, because if you like repost things, like, you know, mental health awareness, malinth, or stuff like that, and really kind of break that ice. As far as like me actually sitting down and telling people, it was funny because the article about me of women's health came out for the schizophrenic thing. It was so funny because I sent it to a bunch of people, and like some of them like, I guess I just assume at this point people know like in my the remote life, and they were all like, oh wow Rachel, like I had no idea. And I'm like, oh he didn't. Oh, surprise! My bad. Um, I just, you know, I'm supposed to plot videos about it, right? My bad. Um, the hardest thing for me is always dating, because I never know like when to, you know, I've actually tried dating profiles where I posted it on there, where I actually like posted it on there, and it's really funny because when I did I got a lot of guys who were like really into that, and it's like, awesome. Um, okay, no, not what I was looking for, um, but just trying to be up front. I definitely don't do that anymore. I was a while ago that I just, I just didn't really know how myself to do with the issue. Now it's pretty much, um, I've accepted that it's just like part of me. It's kind of like, like put it on the same level honestly, it's like having asthma. You know, do you really gotta like stress that the first time you need somebody? No, if you're running a marathon with a new mile one, I throw it out there, you know. Um, but, you know, once you feel comfortable telling a person and go ahead and mentally prepare what is their reaction going to be, it might not be good. You know, a lot of people's only, you know, time they've ever seen mental health unfortunately is bad media things, and they'll be like, oh my god, this person's gonna think I'm shoot up the restaurant or something. You know, um, so kind of like mentally prep yourself, you know, ideally what do you want to happen when you tell this person? Um, and then what's some worst case scenarios? What could happen, you know, if they don't like me, if they don't feel comfortable knowing these things, you know, and what's the best case scenarios? Um, I've had some people tell and it was just like, oh cool. Um, it is funny. A lot of times when I tell people, they feel like they like, I guess if you say like you have schizophrenia, I can't get you to get any worse. Like anything you tell me, they're thinking like, hey, she already put it on the table. It doesn't get any worse than what she said. Even though a lot of the things like people that open up to me about, I'm thinking, oh no, sweetie, that's much worse. Oh God. Yeah, you shouldn't have told me that. That's intense. Uh, a former pimp, you know, talking about hanging this guy out the window and I'm like, wow, no, I'm not sure how you thought mine was worse than that. Um, you know, mine's mental disorder, yours is apparently. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, people open up and you tell me like weird things and I think it's the reason is they want me to feel like, oh, it's okay. And honestly, you guys, it is just, uh, whenever you feel like you're ready to tell someone, you know, that kind of stuff, you know, play it out and it's up to you. All right. It's nobody's business with yours on this kind of stuff. Um, take as long as you need with it. And, um, yeah. I'm Rachel Star. If that helps, always feel free to email me, Rachel at RachelStarLive.com and, um, just don't expect a quick reply. Uh, as you know, my reading and writing kind of comes and goes. So, yeah, I'm out.