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Glenn Jarvis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
369 total appearances

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Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

What did you see when you got back to work?

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Well, usually when I'd taken breaks from work before at Enron, my 19-year-old colleague had covered my work while I was away.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

But in this instance, he decided not to do that, so I had an incredible amount of work to do in probably...

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I had two or three days before month's end.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

So I was doing data entry on the weekend and after hours and working unbelievably hard and also I was in quite a bit of strife in the office as well.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

People were starting to get a bit sort of like difficult and aggressive with me and I was becoming a bit unstable so I was being a bit difficult and aggressive back.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Yeah, it was very uncomfortable.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

What was it that finally pushed you to resign from Enron?

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I didn't resign.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I just walked out.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I came into work after a weekend and I'd been having a lot of questions being asked at work about can we see a CV, who are you, who are your friends.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Who are your friends?

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Yeah, yeah, they're a bit...

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

paranoid about who my friends in London were.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

So there was all of that.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

And then I came into work on a Monday and instead of getting about five emails over the weekend, I'd had about a hundred.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

And I looked at about the first five or six of them and

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Yeah, I felt very uncomfortable at that point and I just walked out and I looked down at the Thames and I thought, I think I'd better go back to Australia.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

So I just kind of took off.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

But the emails were kind of pretty disturbing.