I'm someone who choses to disclose my bipolar disorder when the appropriate time comes. It works out for me most of the time and its good to gauge what how people really feel about mental health.

Even though I have a thick skin, I have recently found myself in a position where it's worn me down and I realize I have no coping mechanism for this. I'm feeling upset about an ongoing issue.

A place where I volunteer had an incident and the coordinators are acting like guards instead of guides. It's not just myself who's going through this, it looks like it's anyone who disclosed mental health issues are being profiled.

It's been a few weeks since this started, and some of the coordinators will not make eye contact or say good morning like they used to. There's obviously been a change in policy after there was a heated argument between 2 other volunteers.

I'm not taking it personally. I actually asked for a letter of reference from them, and not only got one, but it was much better than I expected. But the change in atmosphere is dragging me down some, and I'm starting to think of donating my time to another organization, which I really don't want to do. I like the work and the cause.

It's making me tired when people are looking at me with that unpleasant body language and I can't even enter a discussion as to what's going on. It's gotten quite toxic.