Tip - #188: Dealing with a coworker with a severe mental illness. | Captain Awkward on WordPress.com

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#188: Dealing with a coworker with a severe mental illness. | Captain Awkward on WordPress.com

Dear Captain Awkward: I have a coworker diagnosed with bipolar. Let's call her Cosette. Cosette and I work in the same field, and share many colleagues. When I moved to my current job with Cosette, our colleagues told me about her diagnosis. Some did this in a really ableist sort of way (“Look out for…