State Of Mind
Fast Company|Summer 2022
With our personal and professional lives intersecting as never before, it's time for a serious conversation about how the workplace affects our mental well-being.
State Of Mind

NO 1 Bonobos cofounder Andy Dunn on growing his company while having bipolar disorder

NO 2 Business leaders and advocates discuss bringing compassion to the workplace.

NO 3 How Alicia Keys is expanding her business interests, mindfully

ANDY DUNN experienced his first manic episode as a senior at Northwestern University, in 2000. He went from celebrating the turn of the millennium to wandering the campus disoriented. Plagued by what he calls a firestorm of emotions, he became convinced he was the Messiah and didn't sleep for three nights. Dunn was hospitalized and diagnosed with bipolar I disorder, a condition that can take someone from feeling euphoric and energized to a manic state marked by delusions, impulsivity, and even hallucinations to the deep lows of depression. He went on medication, briefly, but left his disorder largely untreated.

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