Under-reporting of mental health issues
Which ironically makes him/her the safer pilot. Catch-22 in its purest and most accurate form 
The pilots that deny they have a problem, or refuse to report it (for sound and perfectly logical reasons) are the ones you have to worry about because they are untreated or their treatment has the potential to interfere with their flying.
If casa would wake up and understand that reporting mental health issues is a good thing and to not threaten the livelihood of those that do report we will be in a much better place.
Alas, I fear it will never happen as we are too litigious a society and once you report you might have an issue you get branded for life for fear that you might have a breakdown or whatever at an inappropriate point.
It is the mental health equivalent of the peril sensitive sunglasses that go dark at the first sign of danger - if you can't see it it isn't a problem
The pilots that deny they have a problem, or refuse to report it (for sound and perfectly logical reasons) are the ones you have to worry about because they are untreated or their treatment has the potential to interfere with their flying.
If casa would wake up and understand that reporting mental health issues is a good thing and to not threaten the livelihood of those that do report we will be in a much better place.
Alas, I fear it will never happen as we are too litigious a society and once you report you might have an issue you get branded for life for fear that you might have a breakdown or whatever at an inappropriate point.
It is the mental health equivalent of the peril sensitive sunglasses that go dark at the first sign of danger - if you can't see it it isn't a problem
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