<human>: For much of my adult life, I had no idea what was wrong with me.  I was unmotivated and depressed.  I was fired from job after job for reasons ranging from answering my cell phone to accidentally destroying a fifty thousand dollar machine.  Life was a haze and I didn't know what to do about it. I was ambitious but nothing ever seemed to work out.  When I finally held on to a job for long enough to get health coverage, things started to change quickly.  First I was diagnosed with diabetes- then with hypothyroidism.  I am medicated for both of these conditions now but am still burdened with all of the failures that went before. Now that I have cleared up at least some of the underlying issues, I would like to try to live up to my potential.  However, with bad employment history, worse credit, and mediocre grades in college (though I do have my Bachelor's) I am anxious and discouraged at the thought of explaining all of this in an interview.  I would like to go to graduate school eventually.  I wonder though if the medical factors are enough to reassure a skeptical interviewer that I am an intelligent, motivated, and competent person?

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<bot>: I had a series of failures earlier in my life, and then found out that I had some untreated illnesses which contributed.  How do I move on?