There's a huge list of highly successful, productive people who are a credit to the projects they work on, who have or have had mental health issues in the past.
If I had the chance, for example, I wouldn't be at all "hesitant" to work with actors Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, or Johnnie Depp, despite all of them having well-documented mental health issues.
I'd also be very happy to work with Richard Branson (ADHD), or if he were alive today, Nikolai Tesla (OCD and anxiety).
I've also worked with multiple people with various mental health conditions, who weren't actors, but whom were extremely good at their jobs and I'd cheerfully hire again.
Honestly, I've never seen a correlation between "mental health issues" and "would not hire".
No, the ones who are so much of a mess that they cause major problems are the unusual exceptions.
Many, many people have mental issues that they manage to control (through a variety of resources). It's a spectrum, from those people who are slightly, and occasionally, inconvenienced, to those who really aren't able to work well.
Tarring all of those people with the same brush really doesn't help anyone, including yourself.
Well, some of them just have overblown mild issues, the kind millions have. Say, Fry had some depression -- well, more than one in five people had similar experiences, and the kind of depression that still lets you have a long, succesful career, star in movies and tv and write several books, is not the kind of depression people suffer bad from. That's surely not a "lose job, ruin marriage, get alcoholic, stay isolated for months or years on end, attempt suicide several times" depression.
People with actual, serious issues have screwed a lot of people over.
Plus, from the article: "In 1987, when I was 31, I suffered a suicidal episode, which I fortunately lacked the courage to bring to its conclusion. I stood swaying on high buildings; I teetered on the edge of Tube platforms".
Please. Those "attemps" are a dime a dozen. Heck, most people think about it one time or another, including myself.
And I personally know several people who tried (far more than "teetering on the edge of the subway") to off themselves at various points. It's more common than you think. You don't even have to be that depressed. For some it was merely an attempt at attention grabbing.
If I had the chance, for example, I wouldn't be at all "hesitant" to work with actors Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, or Johnnie Depp, despite all of them having well-documented mental health issues.
I'd also be very happy to work with Richard Branson (ADHD), or if he were alive today, Nikolai Tesla (OCD and anxiety).