Applying that to MH problems we see that people with mood disorders like depression were cocooned away from stress. "Don't go back to work, because you'll trigg

Applying that to MH problems we see that people with mood disorders like depression were cocooned away from stress. "Don't go back to work, because you'll trigger another episode of illness". But many people want to work. They do not want to live a life on benefits. I think the problem is that white-collar professional hazing is designed to weed people out. It's built to separate and elevate the uber-reliable (who are often the least creative) above the rest by subjecting people to contrived stresses and subordination. Investment banking analyst programs (120+ hour weeks) are the worst for this, but it's far from limited to one industry. Most companies aren't interested in someone who can't show that he went through 3 years of stressful bullshit and came out a survivor. If offices start accommodating people with these illnesses, then the whole hazing program has to be thrown out. I would argue that the hazing is not really necessary for most jobs, but my view is a minority position among the people in power. The hazing doesn't only come from above, of course. Subordinates and colleagues can "shit test" (one of many Game-isms that applies to white-collar employment) just as hard as managers. This is why "too nice" managers often end up with young wolf problems, and the eaten are the people who are less able to deal with the inane, nonproductive stress. I say this as a person of extremely high creative talent with a mild mental illness (panic disorder) that has slowed my career considerably (now, less so, because the therapies work and I'm down to 2-3 serious attacks per year, although I'd have a lot more if I tried to compete on hours). In this corporate uber-reliability game, I'm one of "the weak" and I'm supposed to lose. The fact that I'm extremely strong in other ways (creativity, software, mathematical intuition, writing) is irrelevant to subordinate white-collar positions. I absolutely agree that we should give these people meaningful creative outlets and allow them to have purposeful lives. No question there. However, this requires dramatically re-defining "Work". It requires eliminating the years-long wringer of nonsensical competition that people have to engage in before they're trusted to do anything real with their time. We have to blast centuries of social behavior, not all of which is the fault of "management", away outright. It's not something that can be done overnight.