Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Yours was decidedly not a case of an airline pilot driven to madness, depression, or "anxiety."
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/pilot-health/146154-decided-come-clean-faa.html
You didn't disclose treatment received while a military helicopter pilot, and later elected to disclose it. Yours was not the result of the hard, difficult, arduous airline life with it's "endless" nights in hotels and the overnights. Yours was combat-related, and your FAA disclosure, detailed in the above-linked thread, simply revealing what you didn't tell the FAA at the outset, prior to beginning your cargo airline career.
The advisory panel's recommendation was not exclusively applicable to pilots who incurred mental health problems in the line of 121 duty.