>>>>>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.
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>>So you trust psychiatrists?
>
>If someone has tried to commit suicide or hears voices telling him that he's Babe Ruth, I don't care what a psychiatrist says, but I'd like to know it.

Suicide would be a serious thing. As for the voices, it's easy nowadays. Just unplug the headphones.