I worked in Pharma for seven years.
Specifically, I worked at Sanofi across Costa Rica and Mexico, in different roles involving Marketing, Sales, and Finance.
I learned a lot.
I learned how global brands operate. I learned how regional strategy works. I learned how marketing connects with medical education, sales performance, logistics, public health, and business development. I learned from more than five different bosses, and with most of them, I grew exponentially.
That is why what happened later hurt so much.
For years, I worked inside a global Big Pharma company. A company connected to health, science, prevention, treatment, and human wellbeing.
But when I experienced an emotional overload, I did not feel protected.
I felt removed.
I felt like the easier option was chosen: to let me go instead of helping me understand what was happening with my mental health.
At the time, I did not have the language I have today.
I did not know I had ADHD.
I did not understand my neurodivergence.
I only knew that my mind was running too fast, my emotions were overflowing, and I needed help.
Instead, I felt betrayed.
Not by everything I learned. Not by every person I worked with. Not by the entire experience.
But by the contradiction.
How can a company dedicated to health fail to see the mental health of one of its own?
Today, after receiving my diagnosis, I am not writing this from resentment.
I am writing this from clarity.
I miss the learning. I miss the challenge. I miss the exponential growth.
But after that experience, I choose to build my own path.
This project exists because mental health should not be treated as a weakness, a risk, or an inconvenience.
It should be part of how we build better people, better teams, better companies, and better futures.
Neurodivergent or not, everyone deserves to be understood before being discarded.