You’d think that as people become more and more educated about the complex biological, social and psychological factors that go to make up mental illness, people would become more understanding and less stigmatizing. As we are on the cusp of having a nationwide ban …
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I guess I am just not surprised. It seems like everyone is asking what medicine we are on these days. From eye exams to mammograms we have to list our regular medications. What I don’t understand is why my employer recently asked me what medications I was on. It was part of a health questionairre for our protection in case of an emergency. If you refuse to answer then you what? I guess I just need to buy a t-shirt.
I went through hell with the Ministry of Transportation in Ontario. I’ve never been charged with a DUI but my licence was medically suspended because I was Dx’d alcohol dependent. My psychiatrist wrote the ministry after I’d been sober for six months, supported by weekly blood and urine tests, but she included a little too much about my mental health history. I got a letter saying that I had to submit another medical report in another 6 months, that stated I’d continued to be absitnant (more bloods and urine testing) and that I was “mentally stable.” I was annoyed but could at least understand the abstinance requirement but was enraged, about the mental stability requirement. I’m finally rid of ministry supervision – got the final letter this week saying my last medical report had been approved, but that I am required to report any change in my mental status. Yeah right. Like that will happen in a million years.
i have bi-polar and i see a whole team of people to help to try to gain some help in living a so called normal life. i get a ton of discrimination from practally everywhere. i want to be a lpn but cant get accepted into the program because of my illness and cosmetology schols ask if you have a phsycial or mental illness which i have to answer and sign it in order to even get a apprentance license, nevermind that they can take it away for that too. is that fare? i feel like i cant do what i want to career wise or be who i want to be because im coded bi-polar it isnt my fault i have this and i work very hard every week to obtain my goals
i hope people can some day accept that no matter if you have a mental illness or not your still human 
I live in OKLAHOMA, USA
YEARLY (not when DL expires) Every year! I have to get letters from my doctors so they do not revoke my DL! Discrimination is alive and well in Oklahoma!
Oh and did I mention that they only give 30 days to get it all done?!
I have lived in 5 other states and never had this problem, maintained my DL for 33 years and have had a clean DL for over 20 years running but now may not have a DL!