and as a medical examiner, not as a psychiatrist here, but a psychosomatic illness typically is a manifestation of physical symptoms not due to an organic cause so no real underlying disease but you might feel either gastrointestinal issues. they are mentioning vision issues and not sure what that might have been. it s not organic cause but based on mental issues. there was a german newspaper that reported that prescription drugs were taken from his apartment related to these psychosomatic illnesses. what types of drugs would be prescribed, do you know? i m not sure. i know that in this country, there are acceptable medications for depression. there are four acceptable
medications. those would be prescribed for patients with mild depression but i m not sure what would be prescribed for a psychosomatic illness. for a psychosomatic illness, it seems to me there would have to be more psychiatric intervention there to determine the cause of the physical complaint rather than medications. can we talk about this overriding narrative? primarily what we are learning from this german prosecutor finding these ripped up notes that lubitz tried to hide this illness from lufthansa and making it seem like he did it maliciously but it s entirely the mental illness itself included him from employing reasoning and logic and selflessness to prompt you or i saying i can t fly today. that certainly speaks to the issue. what is it about this young man that had him absolutely no
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suffering from any court of depression-related issues. as you found out, he would have had to tell them. reporter: he would have had to self-report it and the illness would have been on him. it s interesting in speaking to the lufthansa spokesperson they had no indication he had depress or on mental health issues but the exam he went through in the summer of 2014 only covers physical, not psychological. reporter: right. only physical issues. they say a vision test is involved in it as well so they would do do a seeing test and he passed that without any problems. you re right. there is nothing tested for mental health issues but some of the questions that are asked there, they sort of go back to mental problems that he might have. they sort of ask them how are you feeling at the moment? do you have any issues? there are certain things that, you know, likely might brush across the mental side of things but there is no real mental evaluation. that happens in pilot training but a lot
down. we know that as part of this subjective burnout syndrome that he had. and allegedly there was some dissociative states that we know of where a person begins to distance themselves from their conscious thinking. they throw buffers in there. he had a psychosomatic illness. again, alleged which tells me that this was someone who had some real emotional issues that perhaps were manifested not just in his mind but went throughout his body, which is why they couldn t find evidence of this illness because he manufactured it from his own level of stress. so this was someone, alison, who was really suffering in private but then had that shield, had that persona where he could interact with others in order to keep them from knowing the demons that he was dealing with psychologically. we heard a record from the bild that the co-pilot, andreas lubitz, his girlfriend said he