You get to define for yourself what you think might make you eligible/ineligible.
I quit a good-paying job to move across country and go back to school, so I’m definitely crazy.
On a more serious note, I had one few-month experience with depression when I was in my mid-twenties, though I didn’t seek any treatment (foolishly). And I’ve been prescribed anti-depressants for anxiety twice, most recently after my first husband died in 2009. So I might be ineligible if the standard is just “have been prescribed psychiatric medications.”
Oh crap, they’ll keep it simple and use Myers-Briggs with all the cultural bigotry that goes with it, and ENTJs will be shooting down unarmed INTJs like rabbits.
Preach it. I was suicidal, joined the army as an alternative, said what I thought the psych eval guys wanted to hear and got a top secret clearance. Should I have been given access to what I was able to put my hands to? Well, maybe yes, as I ended up doing no evil. But then again, I was really screwed up at the time. Anything could have happened. We will progress greatly as a society when we realize crazy does not equal stupid…it usually equates with horribly clever.
I think I could pass but I was on some anti-anxiety medicine in college for a little while, and went through counseling for a few months as well. It wasn’t related to suicidal thoughts or wanting to do any harm though.
Kinda what I’d be afraid of. I don’t like to lie on things that would be private, and I wouldn’t want to avoid psychiatric help because I want to own a firearm.
They’d all be given guns to tinker with and be made to calculate load data for the best velocity/stopping power combinations. All in a huge collaborative spreadsheet with many Star Trek and Doctor Who references salted within.
Ain’t that some irony? People who have the wherewithall to say, “I’m sick, think I’ll see a shrink or two and get that under control.” are the ones who get discriminated against. The other crazies who actively avoid treatment keep their ability to work the system.
