Originally Posted by
Lakeaffect
Over 10% of the general population is on antidepressants. Just suggesting that it’s “very few” is contributing to the stigma of mental health. It is not honest. We need to be honest if we want to reduce the stigma.
It may be that very few pilots report taking antidepressants, but I’d say that we are just a subset of the general pop and therefore likely to be similar in percentages.
This makes sense. There is nothing that makes us different from gen pop, except that we need to lie, hide or misrepresent health concerns.