Article published June 27, 2021 in the HuffPo https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pilots-mental-health-depression-anxiety_n_60d391e0e4b06005129e235a
That article was posted on Sunday June 27, 2021 and pilots anonymously chimed in on this Reddit thread about how broken the FAA Aeromedical Division is..
https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/o95f48/how_federal_restrictions_force_pilots_to_hide/
Can't be emphasized enough, The FAA's stance on anything mental health related, even marriage counseling is the equivalent of telling someone if you get an oil change, you can't drive your car. So pilots avoiding any medical treatment for something 100% treatable and curable that does not affect their flying to avoid having to declare it on their medical is the equivalent of driving a car with old oil until the engine seized up. The FAA's current policy is making the skies LESS safe not more. This will cause MORE German Wings type situations, not prevent them.
This is ironic considering the fact the FAA has radically changed policy in the past, specifically in the last few years regarding transgender pilots where the agency no longer considers it a mental disorder of gender dysphonia or requires it to be declared at the medical exam with their AME, when those pilots are the ones that need to be monitored since the reverse hormones and surgical removal of their gender specific organs does cause mental imbalance. Even CBS News 60 minutes points that out. The FAAs illogical view of mental health views transgender as "normal" but those that were tagged with ADHD and/or autism spectrum disorder including Asperger's as children, not affecting us as adults based on real world scenarios, not biased outdated cognitive assessments, we are the ones who are grounded, not the transgender. It's the equivalent of the blanket labeling of inner-city youths in the 1990s as "super predators" by Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden when there was no solid modern scientific basis for it.