There are a wide variety of mental health problems that plague virtually everyone from time to time. They involve distressing symptoms that typically arise from adverse life events that go beyond whatever coping ability you may have at the moment.

These mood and stress symptoms are important to pilots because they not only impair general health, they also impair cognitive skills that are essential to safe flying – attention, concentration, problem solving, judgment, planning ability and self-confidence.

Going down to minimums on an ILS during heavy rain is challenging enough when the important aspects of your life are going well. Doing it while experiencing the negative emotional effects secondary to…