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Originally Posted by Hexagram
If mental illness is stigmatized in your society, then your diagnosis or lying about it on a job application could jeopardize your job or your career; however, unless you somehow call attention to yourself, the education and health ministries might never communicate and reveal your secret. If and when it's ever discovered, your diagnosis could well be mitigated by your exemplary performance as a teacher, and your deception in your application could fairly be attributed to your fear of job discrimination due to the stigma associated with mental illness. If you're already an intern after falsely denying a diagnosis of mental illness, you've already gotten away with it. Trust no one with these secrets and you'll be fine.
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Thanks for your reply. I was told by my GP too that unless I flipped out and they discover that I had lied, I wouldn't get into hot soup. I guess I'm concerned because I'm part of a group to raise awareness for MH and at some point they want us to break anonymity. I'm not ready for that and it might come back to bite me in the ***, so this is one more reason I won't reveal my identity now.
However, they are obliged to report you if they deem you a danger to yourself or others and I'm sure this is the case in the US too. I have been a danger to myself but not to others, though my OCD does provide me with unwelcome obsessions of harming others sometimes. Therein lies my other concern that they will report me for this.