If you faced unemployment odds like these would be honest about an illness?

[HereSince1628]

Unemployed Adults with Mental Illness 2012 by state
Alabama 89.10%
Alaska 71.40%
Arizona 82.90%
Arkansas 78.80%
California 90.00%
Colorado 77.80%
Connecticut 79.70%
Delaware 76.90%
Florida 84.70%
Georgia 87.10%
Hawaii 91.40%
Idaho 81.30%
Illinois 83.20%
Indiana 80.50%
owa 68.40%
Kansas 70.20%
Kentucky 83.90%
Louisiana 88.30%
Maine 92.60%
Maryland 84.10%
Massachusetts 89.10%
Michigan 88.10%
Minnesota 86.10%
Mississippi 86.20%
Missouri 89.10%
Montana 86.10%
Nebraska 70.80%
Nevada 83.80%
New Hampshire 67.30%
New Jersey 71.10%
New Mexico 76.10%
New York 84.00%
North Carolina 85.20%
North Dakota 62.90%
Ohio 84.00%
Oklahoma 79.30%
Oregon 87.70%
Pennsylvania 90.60%
Rhode Island 82.60%
South Carolina 87.60%
South Dakota 72.00%
Tennessee 79.80%
Texas 85.60%
Utah 80.70%
Vermont 74.70%
Virginia 80.30%
Washington 86.90%
West Virginia 91.90%
Wisconsin 77.20%
Wyoming 56.10%

SAMHSA (2012) Uniform Reporting System 2012 http://www.samhsa.gov/dataoutcomes/urs/urs2012.aspx - See more at: http://www2.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=press_room&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=169616#sthash.JYvAYh25.dpuf

[elleng]

1. Probably not,

which is why medics should be required to report to employers in cases of likely imminent harm to the public.

[steve2470]

2. such a wide variation in states nt

[HereSince1628]

11. But even the best is still above 50% unemployment you could probably also say

what a difference between the general population who don't suffer socially acceptable discrimination and those that do suffer socially acceptable discrimination.

Same period for Blacks, unemployment ran from 11%-28%, and 5%-20% for Latinos.

[steve2470]

12. yes very true nt

[dissentient]

3. That's why pilots and others with critical jobs involving public safety should be highly

scrutinized and monitored, so they can't sneak around and hide medical issues like the pilot in Germany did.

It is a no brainer, these kind of strict monitoring procedures should be in place, and if you don't want to be subject to this kind of scrutiny, then don't seek jobs like airline pilot or others involving large numbers of people and public safety.

[elleng]

5. RIGHT!

[KMOD]

4. We still don't know what his ailment was.

We do know that he may have had vision problems. Vision problems would disqualify him from being a pilot. The vision problem was not picked up in in summer physical evaluation.

We know that he was stressed, and we know that he had sleeping issues.

That's all we know.

If stress and sleeping issues disqualify folks from employment, then the vast majority of us will be heading towards the unemployment line.

Oh, and we know that he had anti-depressants in him home. We don't know what kind, if he took any, or why they were prescribed. Anti-depressants are prescribed sometimes, for stress and sleeping issues.

Edit to add: This guy was a self-absorbed bastard who took the lives of 149 others with him.

[DebJ]

6. Anti-depressans are also prescribed to quit smoking, or drinking.

Or because the patient is female.

[KMOD]

7. Exactly, Deb

If all people taking anti-depressants are deemed as unsuitable for work, well than roughly half the nation's workforce will soon be unemployable. Then we'll be sad because we lost our jobs, and we will kill everybody else off.


< for the humor impaired. lol

[Downwinder]

8. Seems he did the responsible thing. He turned to the

Medical profession.What was the result there?

[KMOD]

9. We don't know.

It's all speculation at this point.

We know he took a leave of absence during his training a few years ago allegedly due to stress, and exhaustion. There are rumors that he had vision problems, and they allegedly found anti-depressants in his flat. That's all we know.

[Downwinder]

10. Having had similar symptoms,

I can only imagine. For the first 15 years. "It's all in your head." With a few more symptoms. "It must be writers cramp."