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Dear Karen, This is a very good article and I applaud you for it. As a 30-something solicitor who has struggled with the Black Dog on his shoulder licking his neck, and indeed taking chunks out of it on several occasions (my depression has been so long lasting that my last shrink diagnosed me with ED/BPD 12 months ago), your comments about workplace bullying and “presenteeism” ring painfully true. Unfortunately, the culture of many corporate law firms is that bullying by supervisors is a legitimate tactic of "management by discomfort" and I fear a change in this mindset is all but impossible which is why I will probably never enter a corporate environment ever again. The discovery upon entering what I had hoped would be a professional and adult culture only to find that the rules of the schoolyard still very apply (along with the same apathy and inaction by those in power who are supposed to be doing something about it) has been a main cause of depression and anxiety in itself. While firms’ human resources personnel and occupational health advisors will “go through the motions” in reducing a mentally ill employee’s caseload and working hours, there is an utter refusal to criticise the working practices of their managers as the main cause of this epidemic. I call for some high profile offenders to be "named and shamed" publically in the courts and tribunals in order for the whole rotten system to be cured. Yours in emotional turmoil, Ian Curtis.