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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > The U.S. Federal Government Jobs Megathread: Next time... be more careful!
 
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Synnr
Dec 30, 2009
 I apologize if I missed this somewhere, but my google search results were rather opaque.

I guess everyone gets some level of clearance, but in what ways would on-going mental health treatments affect your clearance/job-seeking? Most of the results I found mainly talk about what seems to be treatments or whatever in the past, not on-going. I know I fail the requirement to join something such as law enforcement, but would that be an accurate reflection in general of federal employment?

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Synnr
Dec 30, 2009

fivetwo posted:

Won't hurt you, really. Look at the last page of the SF86: http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf


This only allows the background investigator to ask the question stated (Is the mental health issue going to cause this person to be a security risk?). Your doctor is going to answer honestly, so hopefully you haven't spent the last 5 years telling him how you have obsessive fantasies about being a Russian spy.

And I wouldn't say you were disqualified from law enforcement, but I'm not an authority on it. If you were applying for a law enforcement job that required a medical exam, you would also have the agency's doctors asking for very detailed notes about the treatment, prognosis, etc. Also, if you are currently taking meds, I guess that would be a consideration as far as your response time/cognition.

Either way, your personal doctor's opinion is going to be crucial to the way things play out.

I fully aware that I am disqualified from law enforcement for the most part. I brought that up as something that I came across at some point, just sort of as a reference. What I'm interested in isn't exactly top secret, but working with the military as non-enlisted would probably require some clearance. I just wasn't sure as to what extreme clearance and the like would be necessary. Working in an overseas military hospital for instance. I'm a Type 1 rapid cycling Bipolar, though obviously extremes like Schizophrenia would be deemed unfit.

Partially I'm curious whether I would even hear anything back telling me it was because of that.

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