There was a thread on here a long time ago, a guy who had to go through extreme testing at a government job when they discovered he had a mental illness history. So, yes, I see why you'd want to keep it off the books...

But... I also want to say **** those people who want to look up your *** to give a talented person a job. But they get away with doing it, so you gotta have it clean and at the ready.

The school, they didn't want to pay extra money for my child to have special ed, back when the little guy was 11 and already had a sui attempt and a mood disorder dx. He needed to be in the e.d. emotionally disturbed program, where we would get free doctors, therapy, teacher coming to the home. The school told me that I didn't want to label him e.d. because it could affect him being hired for certain jobs in the future. I told them what I wanted were the services he needs, that I just want to keep him alive and don't care what they label him. At this point, he is 16, I will be ecstatic if he gets any job! So,, at any rate, good for you with your goals. I think it's great.