How To Tell Your Boss You’ve Been Diagnosed With A Mental Health Disorder

Last month, I told 80,000 people that I had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder during the pandemic. When I put the word out to my social network, I was floored by the response. Many shared their own first and secondhand experiences with mental illness. With a single post, we started a much-needed conversation that crossed all the boundaries of life: race, gender, political ideology and so on.