[jpb4815]

So I am a software engineer and I started working at a terrible company about 6 months ago. 2 weekgs ago we had a deadline that while leading up to it I was "Coerced" or "Strongly advised not to stop until done". This lead to 6 hours of sleep in 5 days with the last 35 hours having no sleep. I quickly spiraled into a mixed episode and was hsopitalized after trying to commit suicide by overdose and driving into a telephone pole at over 100 mph.

Now I am out awaiting an intensive outpatient program that I desperately need and will most likely be remanded into if I opt not to go and my employer wants answers.
They have no short term disability, and my boss is "Very concerned that they were not made aware of any medical conditions I had during the hiring process"
I know if I tell them what happened I will get fired, I dont know what to do.

[Have Hope]

Hi -- I just looked up whether you can get fired for not disclosing or disclosing a mental health condition.

"Only you can decide whether and how much to tell your employer about your psychiatric disability. Telling your employer about your diagnosis is the only way to protect your legal right to any accommodations you might need to get or keep a job."

"Under the ADA, a person with a disability can choose to disclose at any time, and is not required to disclose at all unless he or she wants to request an accommodation or wants other protection under the law. Someone with a disability can disclose at any of these times:

• Before the hiring interview
• During the interview
• After the interview, but before any job offer
• After a job offer, but before starting a job
• Any time after beginning a job

We recommend disclosing sometime before serious problems arise on the job. It is unlikely that you would be protected under the ADA if you disclosed right before you were about to get fired. Employers are most likely to be responsive to a disclosure if they think it is done in good faith, and not as a last-ditch effort to keep your job."

Source:

Disclosing Your Disability to an Employer – Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

I would do some research and contact your psych doctor ASAP, but it seems from this that the sooner you let them know you have a mental health condition, the better so that you can be legally protected under ADA. I don't know enough about ADA myself, so I would research this and find out your legal protections and rights.

And what a terrible company! My goodness! No one should be forced to work like that... what the heck? And the fact that it drove you to a suicide attempt.... perhaps that's your legal protection against the workplace. I would look into this further.

And I am so very sorry this has happened to you! I do hope this all works out for you.... HUGS!