10th
Madness
There’s an article about my old boss in tomorrow’s Styles section. It’s all about how she has bipolar disorder and blogs about it and is apparently part of a “mad pride” movement that says, Hey, it’s okay to be crazy!
I’m glad that a lot of people are reading her blog and finding some sort of solace in it, or what have you. But… sometimes she was pretty miserable to work for. You never knew which Liz you were going to get on any given day.
I don’t really know what the answer is. Mentally ill people should, obviously, have jobs! But I don’t think I want another bipolar person to be my boss. It’s pretty hard to deal with, and that part of it was never really addressed—that is, the effect she had on the rest of the staff because of her mental illness. It was like that couldn’t be acknowledged, or something.