Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\nThe government website advises people to ask their doctor if they are unsure whether they should contact the DVLA.<\/p>\n
Once drivers have declared a condition, experts will analyse the evidence and decide a course of action. You can usually keep driving while DVLA are considering your application.<\/p>\n
Below are the mental health conditions you must report<\/strong> to the DVLA:<\/p>\n\n- Bipolar disorder<\/li>\n
- Paranoid schizophrenia<\/li>\n
- Psychosis<\/li>\n
- Psychotic depression<\/li>\n
- Schizoaffective disorder<\/li>\n
- Schizophrenia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
If you have a diagnosis of one of the following mental health problems, you only need<\/strong> to tell the DVLA if it affects your ability to drive:<\/p>\n\n- Agoraphobia<\/li>\n
- Anxiety<\/li>\n
- Depression<\/li>\n
- Eating disorder<\/li>\n
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)<\/li>\n
- Personality disorder<\/li>\n
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As well as the conditions listed above, you must tell the DVLA if you have been dependent on alcohol, or if you have used illegal drugs or prescription drugs.<\/p>\n
There is a list of medical conditions on gov.uk<\/a>. You can use this to check what the rules are for your mental health problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You must inform the agency if your condition negatively affects your ability to drive There are a number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1003737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4317],"tags":[1224,105,218,16,15],"class_list":["post-1003736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-dvla","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116689055508362712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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