Genuinely appreciated. I feel you, man. When I spoke to HR, it was a very serious conversation. Essentially, the conversation was essentially me asking for he

Genuinely appreciated. I feel you, man. When I spoke to HR, it was a very serious conversation. Essentially, the conversation was essentially me asking for help in avoiding distractions. There were tons at that place, so my request was just for some tiny modifications of the team with some hope that there would be an understanding. I explained how bipolar worked, what it did, etc. Apparently she never actually talked about it with anyone besides her boss. When I left, I was strongly considering filing a discrimination suit, but eventually decided not to as my mood stabilized. Thing is, though, it seems that these problems are entirely systemic. Every place I've worked at has been like this. New social groups I've been a part of have been the same way. It's frustrating, but the silver lining is that the groups that I get a long with, I get along with /very/ well. Perhaps more so than other social groups I've seen. I don't want to say it gets better. It won't. All we can do is take our medicines, understand how our mental processes work and act accordingly. Considering this is all we have, we can't give up and can only work on improving ourselves, despite our own push back.