loss of work due to multiplicity

I have just recently been fired from my job of 6 years due to the fact that my boss new I had multiple personality disorder or DID. He had me train a new girl who would work for less money and then fired me.

He brought me into his office and spoke of my disorder and how i needed to go on disabillity and not be working, how he would be more that happy to write a letter regaurding his view on my work experience.

I feel so cheated and such a failure. All I do is cry. I have applied to other places and never hear back from anyone. If they are saying I have multiple personality disorder then no one will hire me.

I'm a good worker and had been for six years and now this. Now I don't know if I can work anymore. I'm unsure about everything right now. Is there any point in trying anymore. I am totally devastated by this. I had no warning there was a problem. I advise everyone not to let their boss find out about there disorder due to chances of ending up like me. My boss found out by accident from another co-worker whom i trusted and confided in.

You're forced to hide what is wrong with you like its a dirty thing and it really upsets me that we are treated like this. It's about time someone took the bull by its horns and stop this attitude towards mental illness. We aren't contagious people but we are people with hopes and dreams just like anyone else. It's a mental illness and we shouldn't be forced to hide what is part of us just because people don't really understand and they are afraid.

Sorry for going on so long but this really has upset me. I honestly hope that this doesn't happen to anyone else. My friend feels awful about telling my boss but she thought she was being helpful. I guess we have to keep it like a deep dark secret and do the best we can do.

Thanks for listening to me sound off...

kferrell

I understand how you feel to some extent and I'm very sorry this happens. I hate that you feel cheated but maybe, just maybe it's a push in a direction for you that can be new. Maybe you will have more time open up, like I did, so that you can seek treatment under the disability funding and get some help with any issues you can.

I know it's so hard to deal with but I hope you can see another side of it and maybe take the opportunity to find some healing! I know when I worked (I don't qualify for disability since I haven't worked, steady, for 10 years, but I'm very thankful we can make it and I work 'from home' on computers now) it was so hard to keep things going - I was stressed out, tired, couldn't take care of myself, etc.

Maybe this is YOUR time to focus on YOUR needs and not worry about others for a bit. That would be nice!

Cat

What sort of opportunities are there for working from home. Other than "gimmicks" and .... owning your own business which takes capitol... what type of jobs are there that you can survive on?

This is an old thread, but I want to respond to the original poster's (OP's) comment that mental health problems must be concealed at work. In some countries discrimination on the basis of a disability is illegal. The OP was working, apparently satisfactorily too, then fired when outed. In the USA, this is an invitation for the employee to sue the employer for $$$ under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). It may also be illegal under state law.

I am out at work, and have been informed that not only is my job not at risk, but I am entitled to reasonable accommodations (I need none) and freedom from any harassment by co-workers.