This feels like an odd sort of bureaucratic legacy. The same sort of situation exists with government security clearances. When I held a security clearance, it was understood that any occurrence of mental illness, no matter how slight, could result in the clearance being pulled.

What this accomplished, of course, was keeping people out of healthy therapy for ordinary issues.

The result was perverse. A security clearance holder who wanted to work on issues to be healthier would feel barred from being able to do that, thus reducing rather than increasing the odds of instability that might actually impact the clearance.

I’m told nothing much has changed with that; bureaucratic inertia is so strong that changing the culture is next to impossible.