Should it be done? The thread most closely addressing this is from 2009 so I'm interested to see if maybe there has been a shift in opinion. The majority opinion seemed to be that it is best to not mention it, which seems to make sense. It's easy to imagine how having a personal mental illness would be seen as a liability, an unattractive and undesirable trait, as a reason why a person might have difficulties during intern year and the whole of their residency training.
What if someone asks you directly at some point during your interviewing? How should you answer them? Should you expect to be asked if you or any family members have any mental illnesses? I've already had a psych resident at my school ask me if I had any during my psych rotation, which felt inappropriate to me and kind of shocked me that he would ask. I ended up telling him even though I didn't really want to because I didn't want to lie (basically MDD with a pretty interesting, i.e. full of adversity, life history).
And what if you already have one or more red flags, e.g. failed courses, that a mental illness played a role in? If you're already going to be looked at unfavorably anyways, does that make things different?
What if someone asks you directly at some point during your interviewing? How should you answer them? Should you expect to be asked if you or any family members have any mental illnesses? I've already had a psych resident at my school ask me if I had any during my psych rotation, which felt inappropriate to me and kind of shocked me that he would ask. I ended up telling him even though I didn't really want to because I didn't want to lie (basically MDD with a pretty interesting, i.e. full of adversity, life history).
And what if you already have one or more red flags, e.g. failed courses, that a mental illness played a role in? If you're already going to be looked at unfavorably anyways, does that make things different?