Went to renew my driver’s license today only to learn that I had a mental health hold put on me
Now I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to maybe be able to drive again in several weeks
So much for de-stigmatization, that’ll teach me not to tell people about my problems
I didn’t get a hold of anything. Just paperwork I had to have my doctor and therapist say I’m able to drive. I get it every 6 months usually and it’s fucking annoying.
I get two separate ones too. One for mental health and one for my diabetes.
If I don’t they will suspend my license.
You can get your license suspended for diabetes?
Yep! They give me a paper and it has a range between like 1-10 or something between like it’s managed and it’s not a threat to driving to completely ban you from driving (iirc could be just suspend idk that’s what I remember)
Mainly if your diabetic and it’s not manageable or extreme enough that the doctor can consider you a threat to other people driving.
There was like 8 other ones too. One for mental health. I didn’t really look at it when I had it with the other ones.
Doesn’t low blood sugar make you pass out?
It can do a lot of things. Including that.
This would have to be a very unusual event though. Episodes of it going low enough for that should be so rare that it makes no sense to affect your license.
If you’re going that low that often then there is most likely another issue contributing pretty heavily.
I don’t read up on statistics for this or anything but I’ve had it happen once. There was a huge medical problem at the time that interacted with it unpredictably. That was actually the inviting event that let me know I had that problem.
Either way, I’m sure there are people who should definitely have this bar on it. They really should get it under some kind of control. If they’re out of it that bad that often, I really feel bad for them but losing a privilege is better than losing a life. Or several lives.
But it shouldn’t be on there from day 1. Assume the same of them that you would anyone else. If they start to develop a history for this, then measures should be taken. I would think self preservation should keep them wanting to push the line. Unless they’re in denial about it, but I’m rambling now.
Yeah, I think this might be similar paperwork. Except they never sent it to me, so I just got blindsided with it when I went to renew
Suddenly I find out that not only can I not renew it, but I’d been driving on a suspended license for a few months and nobody bothered to inform me
Probably didn’t get to you for some reason. Which is exactly why I believe they should have paperless options but hey government is always 20 behind in tech.