I am a 23 yo m, just graduated college this past May and began my career in July (6 months ago). In June I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 disorder, depression, and anxiety by a new psychiatrist, and henceforth was prescribed an SSRI and an Anti-psychotic as medications.

These medications greatly improved the quality of my life within a matter of days, especially compared to a different SSRI my previous (and first) psychiatrist prescribed me which did not work for me at all. For reasons I can’t explain, I started missing some days of my medicine before altogether stopping and never following up with my psychiatrist’s office. Once I made this inexplicable choice to take myself off these meds, my mental illness symptoms have returned in full force and are horribly impacting my overall relationship with work.

I feel myself beginning to spiral, but I am not too far in that I cannot turn things around. I just have to act now. I have a great job in my dream city and I don’t want to squander this opportunity. I have decided the best thing to do is be up front with my boss, although he is a very tough read and I have no idea how he will respond. Anyone have suggestions as to how I can approach this? Thank you