Yeah- GN- when I was in the military the cold war was going on. Even without the cold war, it is standard procedure I think for people going in (although you were a civilian employee, not enlisting) to have a psychiatric test to check for 1) susceptibility to a mental breakdown and 2) making sure the person could and would fight to defend their country
They have not asked me for ANY providers names of medical stuff so far, except for that standard question I stated below. I'm not fond of delving into all the personal problems with them, but it won't keep me from getting the clearance. I am sure of that because it was the Navy that gave me the therapy when I was younger. I had been cleared for enlisting and a clearance by them before receiving any therapy at all, so if I passed it then, I'd surely pass it now. LOL! Plus, they gave me the therapy and can look at my records and see that yes, I was seeing a therapist for ABC, the whole time maintaining my clearance and I was considered a success story. It will also have documented things like familial tremors if they look that hard. Frankly though, that serves in my favor, in my humble opinion, because it shows it isn't caused by something worse- like using meth. And, since I now have almost 25 years with a good prof record, no criminal history, no major mental health issue, I thinik it will be fine.
Thats the long way of saying that the navy already knows I have anxiety issues and they never took my clearance away and gave me a good re-enlistment code. I guess it was documented so they know that just because I have those issues doesn't mean I am about to grab a gun and do something horrible or sell out my country. It could be that they have asked for the release so they can check that portion of my military record, which is fine. Even when I saw a therapist for myself last winter, it was due to stress and anxiety related to difficult child so that won't prevent it from clearing, or it shouldn't- if I was ever going to lose it and do something horrible, it would have been then. LOL!