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Seeking Mental Health Care Does Not End Security Clearances
Original: Mental Health and Your Security Clearance: Why Transparent Reporting and Seeking Care Stre
The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is telling personnel that transparently reporting mental health issues and seeking treatment generally strengthens, rather than jeopardizes, their security clearance eligibility. The message aims to counter a long-standing fear in the military and defense workforce that admitting to mental health struggles will lead to clearance revocation and career damage. Officials emphasize that only a small share of clearance denials involve mental health, and that untreated problems pose the greater risk.
Why now: Military and defense employees continue to worry that mental health care could cost them their security clearances, and officials are pushing back on that stigma.
US Air Force Life Cycle Management CenterUS Air ForceUS Department of Defense
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- Mental Health and Your Security Clearance: Why Transparent Reporting and Seeking Care Stre · aflcmc.af.mil
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