text: I agree that there are other illness that keep people from getting into the service and would like for people to look at some of those before going off on this. I don't know that I agree that it is a mental illness but we all have our opinions. A woman who has been cured from certain female diseases is not allowed to be in the service and it does not keep her from shooting a gun! There are a lot of reasons that you can be denied and people need to look at them.