I'm not sure what would have happened if I said "yes" to having been treated for a mental illness. I think maybe they wouldn't give me a license thinking I was impaired as a driver.

The stigma is great on having a mental illness, but can you blame people for being afraid when the situations occur when a mentally unstable person goes on a rampage? It's just hard to think of it as having an illness like diabetes that needs constant medication--diabetics once in a while go into low blood sugar & act irrationally but it seems to be more understood & forgiven.

Thanks for the condolences in regards to my mother. She was from NZ so seeing the word "Mum" probably describes what she wanted to be rather than the cold word "mother". I think in her lucid moments she wanted to be a "MUM." She was in such emotional & mental pain that it was actually a relief --hard to say, but we kids were spared further abuse from her. I now understand it was her illness & not "her" that acted that way. I just wish I had known "her."--Suzy