The Issue: Talking About Depression at Work. It took courage for a journalist to reveal her illness to her colleagues, but it ultimately eased her mind Diane Coutu had suffered from depression for most of her life, but the revelation that compelled her to seek treatment occurred, surprisingly enough, in the workplace.
While growing up, Coutu coped with periodic feelings of sadness and hopelessness well enough to become a high achiever—captain of her high school's cheerleading squad, a Rhodes scholar, and a Yale graduate with a degree in literature. Etc_stack31__01__popup.jpg (Image JPEG, 700x1400 pixels) The Stack: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. The Psychopath Test:A Journey Through the Madness IndustryBy Jon RonsonRiverhead; 288 pp; $25.95 The very first thing to know about psychopaths, at least according to Jon Ronson, is that they’re very charming.
They’re also usually smart, easily bored, and ruthless power mongers who watch suffering with interest, have an inflated sense of self-worth, lie compulsively, and rarely take blame for their mistakes. For those reasons and others they tend to congregate in places such as London and New York. And a relatively high percentage end up running big companies.