Originally Posted by
rickair7777
If a "health professional" tells you that you have a problem, you have a problem (especially if it's in writing somewhere). No need to get it from a panel of board certified specialist psychiatrists.
You might be able to quibble about reasonable doubt to a jury, and get away with your freedom. But your certs will be shredded for sure.
You're introducing stupidity and far too much melodrama. There's no jury involved here, nor will there be.
Criminal prosecution in connection to FAA enforcement is EXTREMELY rare.
A therapist might take money for talking it out, but isn't qualified to make a clinical diagnosis. Attending a therapist becuase someone feels that they have a condition does not mean they've been diagnosed with it. This is far from semantics.
You can claim you have cancer all you want based on internet expertise and self-diagnoses, but this does not mean you have it. One may claim a mental condition or seek help for a perceived condition, but this does not mean that one has been determined to have it, and seeing a masseuse, marriage counselor, diet advisor, or shaman doesn't mean one has a condition that's being or has been treated by a "health professional." Far more than a semantic difference.
Bottom line, don't cop to conditions with which you haven't been diagnosed.
All the sky-is-falling melodrama here is misplaced.