Completely AZ: Little Help?

[AgentZero]

As some of you may, or may not, have noticed, I haven't been around here very much. I've been going through a rather rough period in my personal life that eventually resulted in a visit to my GP, which led to a psychiatric referal, which in turn led to an eventual diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
I've been put on medication, & am seeing a therapist fairly often & seem to be getting better, but I'm at the point now where I have to tell my friends & family about it. I know there's a good few people around here with experience (personal or otherwise) of similar conditions and I was just wondering if they had any advice on that? Things to avoid saying are my main concern, since what I now understand to be dellusions caused me to do things that have really upset some people that are close to me and explaining this to them is going to be hard enough and I'm just worried I'll end up saying something that makes it worse.
So... to repeat the subject line, little help?