Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Don't stop treatment just to get a medical. You don't want to end up like some pilots with borderline (or worse) clinical depression who can't get help and live with it because they'd lose their job and their house.
All true. But lots of people will meet criteria for a depression SOMETIME in their life, During 2013–2016, 8.1% of American adults aged 20 and over had depression in a given 2-week period.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db303.htm
But generally most depressions do resolve, with or without treatment although they do better WITH treatment. Once the depression does resolve, the process for getting certified is fairly easy. If you still require meds to resolve the depression it’s a little more tricky although even that is not necessarily an insurmountable issue for pilots who are already heavily invested in an aviation career.
See this:
Medical Never Submitted
If the problem is chronic, recurrent, or severe, you might not want to
initiate such an investment though.