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How to navigate disability disclosure in hostile environments

I keep my bipolar diagnosis secret at work because I have seen how quickly people get managed out once HR knows about mental health issues.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The necessity of strategic concealment for survival creates a double life that exhausts the spirit even when it protects the livelihood.

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