I lost my last job because I wasn't allowed to do that---some days I could barely drag my butt to work, and others I was so manic that people shouldn't have had to deal with me. The rest of the time I was perfectly capable of handling things.

But on those occasions when I was in bad shape, I'd probably have survived if only I could have shut off the ringer on the phone and locked my office door for a few hours. In fact, when I had my breakdown and was going back to work, my pdoc asked for that accommodation and I was denied. I couldn't perform my job without it, so I got fired.