Would I have ticked the box that says I have a disability? That's hard to know. In Canada it's illegal to ask that question during the hiring process. But my answer would probably been no. When I'm not actively depressed, I function fine - and I take meds to keep it that way. to me it's like having high blood pressure, I manage it. As for the addiction - hmm, that's harder. When I got my current job I'd been sober for a year, so I thought it was a thing of the past. I relapsed obviously, and had to go back into treatment, but I'm sober now and so again would probably say no. I could drop out of my after care treatment, and I think i'd stay sober or at least I hope I would.

Just given my experience of not getting interviews when I said I left my last job for medical reasons, my fallback position would be to say no to any disability question - it's too easy to be discriminated against pre hiring, and having them use other reasons.

--splitimage