As I have said before, ALL of us will at some time experience difficulties at some time in our lives.
These situations may cause a pilot to get depressed.
Therefore it is important that the airline medical staff of any professional Airline are able to deal with such situations.
Mishandling the pilot may cause serious damage.
If it gets out of hand medication may be required, however somebody who is chronically depressed should not be allowed on the deck, hence will lose his licence.
I doubt even that someone with such a personality structure would pass any SERIOUS training scheme to become an airline pilot.
[This message has been edited by Streamline (edited 27 November 2000).]