Her doctor diagnosed her condition as clinical depression and has prescribed medication that has removed all of her symptoms. Fear and ignorance. It threatens the integrity of what is the unique aspect of ourselves. It threatens us in ways that no other illness can. Often hitting in early adulthood, when people are beginning to realize their work potential, it robs them of the opportunity to build self-esteem at work.
Fear takes many forms.
It's no accident that mental asylums were built in rural areas. People used to think mental illness was infectious. Thirty years ago, he explains, doctors prided themselves on never telling a patient they had cancer. It was unspoken, as frightening and as stigmatized as mental illness is today, especially at work. They're not stigmatized.