<prompt> Human: Due to an extremely traumatic experience in my life I suffered from full blown PTSD during my last FT job and was admittedly unable to perform up to expected standards. It was extremely debilitating and consequently I was terminated for performance reasons. I really wanted to leave on my own terms to work on my health issues but being locked into a lease with no savings prevented that from being an option.Its been almost 4 months since this happened. Ive continued to work part time at my second job but my main job became rehabilitating my mental health. Now I know that Im in a place where I can provide good value to a company.Ive been applying for jobs and have a couple of phone interviews in the coming weeks. Obviously I am going to be asked why I left my previous FT position. I am still unsure how I am going to handle this. Any advice?Admitting to termination seems like a great way to not get the job...and I understand that from an employer perspective. It just seems unnecessarily risky to hire someone who was terminated even if for health reasons when there are so many candidates.  <response>: I was terminated for performance reasons, and my performance was suffering because of PTSD related to a traumatic experience. Ive been working in a part-time position at location X since then. Now I am in a place where I can provide good value to your company ...I dont think you need to explain that you decided to wait to get fired, rather than resigning, because you needed unemployment benefits. So while I think honesty about the general nature of how your last job ended is required, if they ask you, you dont need to go into every detail.One advantage of being upfront about this experience is that you dont later have to worry, when you get the job, whether this episode will come back to bite you, which could happen if you avoid this and they find out about it and feel they were misled during interviews. Its easier for you to know they know than to live in fear of what might happen if they find out. That kind of general anxiety would not help you put the event truly in the past where it belongs, and could be unhealthy by keeping it present psychologically.I wouldnt put terminated on the résumé though! Give date ranges for your jobs and let them ask what questions they care to. 