Recently I told one of my friends one of the biggest secrets and he was able to except it.  It has never been easy to tell people that my brother has schizophrenia.  Every body that I have dated knows about my brother but I’m very choosy about the friends I tell.  Every time I told one of my friends about my brother they looked at me like I as crazy.  I even had one friend stop being my friend after I told her.  It has been over ten years and it is still hard for me to talk about my brother.  I was at my cousin’s wedding and my friend Gimpy and his girlfriend were there.  My brother kept saying stupid things that made them question what he was doing.  At the end of the night I told Gimpy and his girlfriend that he has schizophrenia.  I saw the look of puzzlement and then the look of curiosity.  They asked me the simple question of when was he diagnosed and how old were you.  The next time Gimpy called me it made me so happy that I had a true friend.  I never told him that, that phone call ment the world to me, but I think he knows.