will the army accept me if i have have had a history of add and/or anxiety?

May 4th, 2010

David asked:


In addition to this I am currently on probation for a class c felony, but, I have an SIS (suspended imposition of sentence), which from my understanding will drop the felony from my record after having successfully completed my probation. Also, I was only recently diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, and if it DOES disqualify me can I simply stop taking meds for it and just kinda deal with it and pretend I dont have it any more, like maybe I am cured or something?? any help would be great thanks.
I will not be done with my probation for probably another 3-5 years, so maybe then they will accept waivers? BTW my felony was a class c felony stealing and it was much under $500… I see conflicting opinions about my issue with social anxiety, the way would see it, the army probably prescribes anti anxiety medication for soldiers that are already enlisted, but thats just an estimated guess. im still not sure that they would accept someone with a pre-existing social anxiety disorder… and if not I would like to know if there is anything that i can do to work around it. ANYTHING at all. I was only diagnosed a couple of months ago… maybe if I get off the meds now the recruiters will take in to account that possibly I was just under some kinda of stress and it was just situational anxiety?…. which it kinda is…

Alexander

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Can you join the army if you have anxiety disorder?

March 23rd, 2010

Grace asked:


My boyfried just decided that he wants to join the army. He said he has already talked to the ROTC guy and got set up to join when he gets out of school. He is soon to be 21 and has sever panick disorder, he is medicated for it. Can he really join the army?

Yovanny

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Can i join the air force if i have panic attack disorder? i am being treated with prozac?

October 19th, 2009

Justin asked:


I’m 15 years old and a few months ago i was diagnosed with panic attack disorder, and i’ve been being treated with prozac for under 4 weeks, can i join the air force?

please be as detailed and straightfoward as possible. thank you so much for answering in advance!

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How hard is it to get a waiver for past back pain if I am 21?

September 4th, 2009

ashotinthedark asked:


I was on some medication for it awhile back and it has gotten much better, I think it was just a pulled muscule. I had an MRI and xray done at my parents insistence and they didn’t show anything other than ‘minor dextroscoliosis’ but the doc told me that was normal and everyone has some of it. I want to join after I get out of college.

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