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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes pp.
You don't sound ready to be someone's employer.[/quote]

I don't know if I am the PP to whom you are referring but I already am "someone's employer" - over 45 people in fact - including a nanny.  And while I would hire someone with a mental illness for a job in my company, I would not hire someone with a mental illness to be my child's nanny.  End of discussion.  [/quote]

+1.

I realize that this is a catch-22: if you don't disclose a condition, you can't request reasonable accommodations, and you may lose your job for performance issues that could be explained if NF knew your condition. But disclose it, and probably most NFs won't hire you.

I'm not going to hire anyone with a chronic medical condition if I know about it, unless it has been under control for years, and the person can assure me that it has literally no effect on their ability to show up on time, stay all day, and do the job. I feel like anyone in that situation wouldn't think to disclose it, because it doesn't matter. Anyone who does feel the need to disclose it, probably knows she'll need special consideration (or might need).

As a PP said, you are the sole employee, tasked with caring for people too young to take care of themselves if you have an attack of whatever it is. Go work somewhere where a sudden emergency or decompensation won't  mean that there's no one to cover.[/quote]

What kind of sudden decompensation do you think you see with depression?  Schizophrenia?  Mania?  Alcohol abuse?  These things don't happen overnight.   It's not like a seizure disorder.[/quote]

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