Mental health and fitness to drive

The table concerns severity that disrupts insight, behaviour, cognitive abilities or perception required for driving. The diagnosis alone does not determine the conclusion.

The chapter mentions attention, concentration, memory, alertness, visuospatial function, impulse control, judgement and problem-solving.

Insight means understanding one’s condition and its consequences. The document emphasises awareness of how a mental-health condition affects driving safety.

The chapter lists acute psychosis among conditions that disqualify a person from driving. Distinguish it from a controlled condition assessed under the table’s requirements.

Yes. Drowsiness and treatment-related impairment of driving abilities are explicit considerations. A restricted recommendation requires absence of side effects that interfere with driving.

The table includes treating-doctor follow-up, continuous cooperation, a controlled condition, insight and absence of disruptive side effects or accompanying problems such as drug or alcohol use.

The professional-licence table specifies periodic follow-up by the treating psychiatrist, with reports addressing its specified conditions.

Yes. Failure to cooperate with necessary treatment is a factor in unfitness. Continuous cooperation is a condition for considering a restricted recommendation.

Yes. The table requires ruling out accompanying problems such as drug or alcohol use as part of the conditions for considering a restricted recommendation.

Yes. It states that driving may support rehabilitation for some people, while function and driving-safety risk must also be assessed.