Again, it makes me rage to hear the crap we have to go through in this profession. If it was any other area of industry, most of the higher ups would be fired by now. God, don't you wish you could name and shame supervisors and universities that treat their students like garbage?

If I were you I would make a log of every single complaint, incident of harrassment and grievance that you have experienced. Try to talk to your supervisor, if not take it higher (all the way up to the dean if necessary). If you still do not get any joy, I would write to newspapers, MPs and anyone that will draw attention to what is happening. I wish I had done this, with some of the frankly illegal stuff that was happening, but I didnt know any better.

I'm really sorry to hear about you nightmare supervisor... she sounds like she should be in a f*****g zoo! One point I wanted to pick up on was her constant reference to your mental health. You say she has mentioned it in front of colleague also?

This is discriminatory behaviour.
1. She has no right to openly assume any of your so-called deficiencies are a result of your medical history (while she may think this, she should be keeping it to herself and not directly ascribing it as a "weakness")If she cannot prove that you are not performing well, she should not be making ANY direct reference to it at all - to you or anyone else.

2. I'm sure I read somewhere (another of your threads maybe?) that she was making reference to your condition in front of others? As a supervisor she has no business disclosing aspects of your mental health hisory, or indeed any aspect of you medical history to others in your institution. It is basic confidentiality and data protection, and she is not abiding by it.

I am confident you can pursue lines of discriminatory practice against her. Your uni should have an equal opportunities office or something to that effect. I am sure they woudl be most interested to hear about her discriminatory and quite franly apalling behaviour.

Check out the mental health foundation ot MIND (www.mind.org.uk) for advice on this. She could (and should) be hauled over the coals for this.

that is so awful. whereas your disease does not affect your work, your supervisor's behaviour and the way she treats you effectively does disable you. and being used as a pawn in other peoples games certainly doesn't make anything better!
when i found no matter who i asked, nobody was helping me (in a totally different situation), somebody referred me to the students' union advice/counselling services. in the end i didn't get in touch with them, but i was told that often you could be surprised by how professionally you will get help and advice from them. maybe you could try that.