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The Sunday Read: ‘Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness’

The Sunday Read: ‘Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness’

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Troy Merritt, a pilot for a major U.S. airline, returned from his
30th birthday trip in Croatia in October 2022 — sailing on a
catamaran, eating great food, socializing with friends — and
cried. This wasn’t back-to-work blues but collapsed-on-the-floor,
full-body-shaking misery. When he wasn’t crying, he slept.

“I’ve got to find a therapist,” he told himself. And he
did, quickly. If that therapist didn’t write down “depression,”
Merritt would be OK. He could still fly planes, keep his job — as
long as he wasn’t diagnosed with a mental illness.

Merritt, like all pilots, knew that if he was formally diagnosed
with a mental-health condition, he might never fly a plane again.

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