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Mar 26, 2011, 03:08 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: So Cal
Posts: 3,342
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I have attempted to disclose my PTSD and Depression with 3 separate employers, each time going through the "legal" channels of HR and filing for "legal" assistance for FMLA. Each time it has been a disaster and led to my employers finding anything and everything wrong with my performance that they could, even though they couldn't prove it. I have been denied promotions, salary increases and have been emotionally tormented by employers. I fought so hard with one employer, and I was winning "legally", but the Managers and Supervisors just made it that much more difficult for me to be successful and would spin every little thing they could into some reason to write me up. They turned it into a toxic work environment and for my own health and sanity, I ended up leaving. I'm not saying I'm the perfect employee, but I KNOW I am as capable as any other employee that was there at doing my job. And the issues didn't start until AFTER I disclosed. Self disclosing just about ruined my career. And I'm not talking about just a job, I'm talking about my ability to provide for myself and my ability to get a job...anywhere.
I had to leave the State to find salvation and find work that would accept me. Word gets around in the healthcare community, especially when you have old supervisors who are presidents of the local chapter of the American Nurses Association. Yeah....it's a wonder it spread like wildfire.
I will NEVER again voluntarily self disclose; EVER!!  If I am ever in a position where I need to, I will make sure to have an employment attorney do it for me, so my employer knows from the get-go that I have representation and that they better mind their P's and Q's.
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