Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline I · Psychological
Psychiatric Hospitalization
Does psychiatric hospitalization affect a security clearance?
Basis: 47 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
47
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
32%
15 granted · 32 denied or revoked
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- treatment in remission · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who has been diagnosed with PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder. The applicant admitted to several allegation…
Applicant, a 32-year-old manager with a physics degree and MBA, faced allegations under Guidelines I and E based on a long history of depression, suicide attempts, hospitalizations, threatening texts,…
Applicant, a contractor employee, was denied eligibility for access to classified information. The judge found that his long history of public masturbation, workplace pornography use, sexual fantasies…
Applicant, a 41-year-old pro se individual, was denied a security clearance under Guidelines I, H, and F. The decision relied on a long history of bipolar disorder with hospitalizations, suicide attem…
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How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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