chillmanstr8

Dammit Jim.

Hello Alice, I had a question regarding anxiety and depression as disabilities. I recently went through our company’s yearly training and one of the courses was on disabilities. However there was no mention of mental health being a disability.

There are days when I’m just so anxious I feel paralyzed and very unproductive. My managers are aware of my anxiety and are supportive and encouraging.

While I’m not currently at any spot where this is significantly interfering with my life, I have had these spots and know I will have them again.

I guess my question is, is having a diagnosed mental illness a possible disability currently? (USA) I don’t like using my few PTO days for when I have a series of days like this, and just wondered what your thoughts are in situations such as this, where a person can, for all intents and purposes, be incapacitated by anxiety/depression but it’s not something that’s an ongoing disability? TIA

Edit: just saw your response to neonbluefox but if you could expound on that I would appreciate it!

I appreciate it. Thanks!