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My name is Helen Oyang.
I'm an emergency physician and I'm a contributor to the New York Times Magazine.
For decades,
the Federal Aviation Administration had strict rules around the mental health of pilots.
Pilots who were diagnosed with any kind of mental health disorder like depression were not allowed to fly.
Almost half of all Americans will experience mental illness at some point in their lifetime.
So why would pilots working in one of the most demanding isolating occupations be any different?
Every single pilot I interviewed for my New York Times Magazine story had withheld some kind of underlying medical issue or knew of a colleague who did