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When High-Powered Careers Come to Define Us

The Anxious Achiever

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The Importance of Waiting a Minute

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was diagnosed with major depressive disorder in 2009. He started teaching leadership classes on his own and began mentoring junior managers at the company. "I'm surrounded by people also living these private hells," he says, but nobody talks to each other about it. 'There's this loneliness epidemic around these conditions'

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