Originally Posted by
captive apple
The FAA does need to evolve on issues like anxiety and others as they did with depression. With the severe consequence known the problems never get address. That’s not good.
Depression and anxiety are a natural part of human life.
They actually tried to evolve with some policy changes, and then the germanwings thing happened. Now the bureaucrats are running scared, and I can understand why.
But the good news is that you will get fully cleared once your temporary, situational depression/anxiety is fully resolved. Obviously they need to verify that, can't just take your word for it. Unfortunately if you have a chronic mental health problem, that's a no-go, as it should be. Depression/anxiety is very likely to degrade your piloting performance, even discounting the rare risk of suicide-by-plane.