I find the stigma might be something to embrace in a non-emergency.  While employers should absolutely keep an open-door and a supportive policy to these kind of issues, your friends and co-workers are not your psychiatrist or other mental health professional.  Telling a depressed person that they should go home and relax with a stiff drink seems like a unreasonable thing to say, it has only become so (relatively) recently.<p>I will also mention that some people have boundary issues due to various conditions and a employer&#x2F;employee relationship can not support a healthy recovery.  Similar to how some psychiatrists don&#x27;t take their patients out socially.<p>I mention all this as I hope that it makes it your choice to not share and not a onus to stay perfect all the time.