I’ve Kept My Diagnosis a Secret (Should I Come Clean?)

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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0:00.0	I was unfortunately diagnosed with schizophrenia.
0:08.0	Is it wrong of me to keep this secret from literally every single person that I know?
0:15.0	We live in a culture now that says because we have social media, you have to tell everybody everything all the time.
0:20.0	And if you're not, then somehow you're a liar.
0:21.9	And that's false.
0:22.7	It's just not true.
0:28.9	What's up?
0:29.7	What's going on?
0:30.5	This is John, the Dr. John Deloney's show.
0:32.8	I'm so glad you're with us.
0:35.1	Taking your calls on your mental and emotional health and your relationships and your kids and whatever else you got going on in your life go to john deloney
0:42.6	dot com slash ask a sk love to talk to you on the show all right let's go to jacksonville
0:50.7	florida and talk to eva hey eva what's up what's up? Hey, how are you, Dr. John? I'm great. How about you? I'm great. What you say, lady? So I kind of, like, wrote something just so I wouldn't get, you know, kind of jumbled up. Is it okay if I just kind of, like, read that to you? You could do whatever you want.
1:11.0	Yeah, like let it rip.
1:12.2	Read it up.
1:13.1	Okay.
1:13.9	Got it. Okay. I'm kind of nervous. Sorry. No, I don't be nervous. You're good. What's up? Okay. So. By the way, I also know telling somebody, hold on. I know that telling somebody, hey, don't be nervous is like when somebody's depressed and you're like,
1:10.7	ah, just cheer up.
1:11.7	Or somebody's anxious and you're like,
1:28.1	ah, just cheer up. Or somebody's anxious and you're like, just don't worry about it. So I know. Be as
1:33.4	nervous as you want to be. You're good. Okay. So last year, I was unfortunately diagnosed with
1:41.5	schizophrenia. Wow. How old are you? I'm 25. I just turned 25 like yesterday.
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