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Brandon090293
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Hello, I will try to keep this as short as I can. Summer of 2020 I started to get headaches and visual disturbances. I ended up having an arachnoid cyst that was fenestrated and had lots of complications from the surgery which inevitably led to a VP shunt being placed. I have no cognitive deficits from all this non sense, fortunately. However, because of the shunt, I lost my medical and cannot re apply for 2 years from the date of shunt placement (November 2022). As I said, I do not feel that I have any deficits from this whole ordeal, but the problem lies in what happened early this year 2021. I was having a hard time accepting that my job and possibly career had been taken away and was feeling very down in the dumps. I have never dealt with anything like this before or any type of mental illness. I ended up going to the ER for depression and suicidal ideaology. I mostly went because I honestly did not know if I was feeling down because of the loss of my job, or if it was brain damage from the surgeries. Not much came of the visit, talked to a counselor and she agreed that I was feeling like this because of the career change. Anyway, I am in the midst now of getting my medical records from that day to see if I was actually diagnosed with depression or anything, as I am not sure I was. I was not put on any meds or anything like that. My question is does anyone know how/if the FAA would be understanding of this situation if I was in fact diagnosed with depression? Would they see that the reason I was in the dumps was because they took my medical away? If I was not diagnosed with anything, do I have to report it once I am able to apply for another medical?