I've written before about mental health and 'masking'. In this post I explore this further, with the illustrative example of an early-career solicitor who got in trouble with the Solicitors Regulatory Authority who didn't accept that mental health played a part in their behaviour.
Tags categorise blog content on this site. They are topic areas, categorisations, or features of posts that people might be interested in specifically looking at more of. Teasers of posts with a selected tag are below, or, if no tag is selected, there is a list of tags ordered by number of posts, those with the most posts first.
You probably have a stereotype in mind about disabled people - how they act, how they talk, how they look. This post explores how the stereotype is wrong, the phenomenon of people with mental health conditions 'masking', and the costs of doing so.