Don’t do it if you can possibly avoid it. I had a mental health crisis and crashed hard. I had been very transparent about my struggle leading into, so many people were not surprised. I brought a work project down (it got delayed) with me, and although my colleagues were amazing, the organizational leaders were not. My recovery has involved a reduced work schedule, and they demoted me as far as they possibly could, and basically disappeared me so I am totally isolated from my work community of a decade - yes, a decade.

It is an illness like any other but I 100% feel like it would hurt my career to share too much.

People can be reeeelatively chill about depression, anxiety or ADHD, but the closer you get to what people think of as "crazy" the riskier it gets, even if completely managed - bipolar, schizophrenia etc. I think I would only disclose if I intended to get active in mental health advocacy within the company/industry, and not if I just wanted to do my job, or had ambitions above my current role... Because it will definitely make life harder. It sucks, but mental health discrimination is insidious and rife. 😞