Weird questions about mental illness at the DMV..

[undergroundpanther]

I recently got my ID at the dept. of motor Vehicles in Maryland..( it's a drivers license without the you can drive part).They went through the normal ID stuff,then much to my horror they asked me if I had a mental illness.They showed me a list asking if I have ever been diagnosed with any of these conditions.Every condition on that list was a mental illness diagnosis,manic depression schizophrenia,etc.(PSTD and just Depression,and alcoholism was NOT on that list ironically) I didn't know how to answer. I wanted to NOT answer. Than I wondered if they can get access to my medical records..Because I knew they'll find a dozen or so diagnosis I have had over the years(most of them were on that list)and that I'm disabled.I felt trapped by a catch 22 that made me feel really uncomfortable.So I checked off manic depression. Just to end the dilemma in my head.Then the screen said some kind of review officer/board would have to okay me for any license to drive a vehicle in the future. What?? a DMV psych test? WTF does the DMV need to know my psych shit for? Can you say DISCRIMINATION?? PROFILING? But for what ends do they ASK these things? Why? Why do they want to subject me to the opinions of my mental state by some bullshit DMV psych inspector for? If I am stopped by any cop will he know my psych history now? How will that knowledge affect how I am treated by cops(cops in Maryland freak out if confronted by mental illness)(Will I be taken seriously when I make a 911 call?