Break the silence?

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Had an attack in office today and all I could do is to curl up in the cubicle in the toilet because no one knows about my past. Breaking the silence about mental health is something which I really wanted to do. Sometimes I'm afraid to be judged. Sometimes I'm afraid of the sympathetic glares. But most of the time, I just wanna be treated as a normal person. But there's just too much stigma revolving around this topic. I've seen very often a quote - "when you break your arm,everyone rushes to sign you'd cast. When you talk about mentally illness, people run the other way". Honestly, I'm not all that bad. I'm functioning very properly except for a few isolated incidents. And my friends from the hospital, I think they're awesome. They're not crazy. We support one another better than any therapist because we understand how we all feel at certain seasons of our lives. Like other people, we just need support (and I'm thankful that I have a lot from my friends, family, employers!). And we can be normal, again, just like we once were. ;) And trust me, in our hearts we long to help others, because we know how it is to be helpless. So ... time to embrace people for who they are, not what their illness is!! :) Share your thoughts on this ya?