Hi all,
Brief question before I take my medical next week. I took a few weeks off because of stress early last year during a particularly tough time with work (education sector and the pandemic hasn't been much fun, even for a non-teacher...), but it's not on my patient care summary as I was able to just take the time off as sick leave from work without bothering with a doctors note. I've not had any treatment, therapy etc for it and haven't felt the need for any more time off since, so there's nothing else to go off and it's not an ongoing thing for me. Since it wasn't treated by a doctor/isn't on patient care summary I got printed, am I better off not mentioning it at the medical? I don't know if they would class it as a mental health issue, but i'm presuming that given all they have is the patient care summary printout then mentioning it without further info to provide them anyway might cause me more of an issue because of the lack of any records? If all they have to go off is my patient care summary from my GP (since they're not NHS and presumably can't access any further medical records, even if I did have more to give them?) I don't want to inadvertently put myself in a position where they then want more detailed info from my GP that doesn't exist and I end up stuck trying to prove something I can't.
Not trying to deceive anyone, just trying to navigate the process!