>>>How about if you'd had a psych issue and were applying for a job.
>Well, how about that?
>
>Is the greater good served more effectively if the prospective employer knows that or not?
>The notion that a psych issue is something to be hidden from the world is absurd to me.
>If I'm 5'3" and apply for a position as an NBA center, the interviewer will use that obvious information to disqualify me, and that's a good thing.
>If anything, a psych issue, because it is not immediately apparent, should be more publicly available.

Normaly?
Nobody has to know my health condition. An employer needs to run a risk. Or are you shure the employer will be there the next day?

In special cases?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

But wasn't it my most favorit American Airlines (next time I swim trough the Atlantic) where a pilot died on a heart attack?

To limit this to psych problems is wrong. Psych problems are not to distinct from others. They are just problems.