Joining the Amry with Recent Mental Health Issues?

Apples2

Sound like an ideal Officer Candidate.

mitchaa

They are looking at cutting numbers in the forces so I can't see you being high up the list of potential new recruits.

You will be given a loaded rifle on range days, if you are shouted at for not applying the safety catch, there is more of a chance you can flip and put a bullet through the instructor than there is of someone else doing it. Likewise on guard duty, cold, wet, miserable, tired, and you get a screaming sgt major in your face for having your lace undone. You have that loaded rifle. It can just take 1 little thing like that for you to flip and of course you would get diminished responsibility and sent to a hospital rather than sent to a prison as a murderer.

I may be taking the example to the extreme but I certainly wouldn't feel safe on a range with someone that had had previous mental health problems.

mountainofdebt

Oh for goodness sake cut the OP some slack......................what can be classed as mental health issues these days covers a wide range of topics that we dont' know if the OP would be a danger on the firing range or not .....and the OP has had the good sense not to give us details of their condition if the last three posts are anything to go by!

I agree though with BLT in the sense don't lie about it (however tempting it is) as the autorities will find out about it however much you try and cover it up.

OP unless your condition is one where it is an automatic disbar to entry, expect your application to be passed upwards from the doctor that gives you the medical - the doc who does that will not, in our experience, have the authority to pass / fail you.

Fergie76

http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/howdoijoin/canijoin/Pages/DoYouHaveaMedicalCondition.aspx

helsee

theres nothing stopping you applying but you must be fully honest in that application, for your own sake and that of those you could potentially serve with. Have to agree with the poster who commented on the army not being great with diagnosis and support of mental health issues- my experience is that your more likely to be told to man up and sort yourself out then get any real support.

If your medical people are already advising against application maybe you should rethink your plans, especially as recruitment numbers are high now and the army can cherry pick from applicants. What is it that motivates you to join? could it be fulfilled with another career option?

oscardog

I agree with all of the above about honesty. If you try and hide anything during joining up which is subsequently discovered you will be out in a flash and lose everything.

bodmil

I think if you have been diagnosed as psychotic and been accepted for DLA you could do with really thinking about the Army and whether it's a good environment for you to be in. Of course not all jobs are frontline combat, but it is not known for being cushy.