I am having trouble with the wording of the medical questions on the JET application, regarding whether or not I will need a Statement of Physician form. The only area that I remotely could answer yes to is in the section regarding mental health issues. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child when I was around 9 to 10 years old, roughly in about 2005, and I took adderall for only about 2 months, and have never once used it again, or been treated in any way for ADHD, for about 17 years. Do I need to list this? I asked my parents about it, and my mom barely even remembers anything about it other than that my teacher kept pushing for me to be on medication, and made my mom feel like she had to beg our doctor to put me on it. I then responded terribly to it and would barely eat or sleep, and I was only on it for about 2 months before I was taken off of it and never used it again. I am now 26 years old, and have had no ADHD treatment or diagnosis in at least 17 years, and I am not even completely sure that I had a “formal diagnosis” back then. Would this even still be on my medical record today? I do not have a primary care doctor currently, as mine retired last year and I rarely have health problems. I am not even sure if there would still be a record of this. I would have to try to potentially find an urgent care in the next 9 days that would fill the statement of physician form out for me, just for this one instance alone and nothing else. Can I just skip the Statement of Physician form? My main concern is that I will later need the separate Certificate of Health filled out, my medical record will show this from my childhood, the physician will put this on the Certificate of Health, and I will get flagged for lying by not stating this and getting a Statement of Physician during the application, thus saying goodbye to the JET program and any future hopes of it. Has anyone had a similar situation? The application states to list a mental health issue if you have ever had one, but would that really include such a long time ago as a child?
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Don’t list it. If you haven’t had treatment for it for 17 years you can easily argue it is no longer relevant.
Japan is a bit funny with ADHD, if you list it you might torpedo your chances, which is a real waste since you are not even sure it was a proper diagnosis 17 years ago.