I wasn't exactly fired - just not asked to return. I was working as a camp counselor. It was my sixth summer with the camp. It was right after I had been dx'ed and I was struggling with severe depression and a possible mixed episode. I ended up telling the owner of the camp everything, that I had been dx'ed bp, what I was suffering with at the moment. He seemed supportive. Then I ended up in the hospital the second week of camp. I was unable to return to camp that summer as I had to do a php dbt program. I apologized, I said I'd love to come back next year, he said don't worry about it, he'd see me next year when I was feeling better.

They usually send out letters in October inviting you back for the following summer. Well it was about mid November and I realized I'd never gotten a letter. By January I realized I wasn't going to get a letter. Five years of hard work, where I won employee of the week every year, and I have one bad summer and that's it for me. And I'm not even that mad because I understand, I did bail out in the middle of the summer and they had to find coverage for me, but it was the way he did it that bothers me to this day. I was a dedicated employee. He should have called or emailed me to let me know he wasn't going to rehire me and the reason why. He never did. He just forgot about me.

Every once in awhile I get emails about "alumni" events and the anger starts all over. I'll never go back there and I will certainly never send my kid to that camp. I won't discourage anyone else from doing so but I personally won't have anything to do with it anymore.