"Have you ever suffered from mental health issues, like depression, or feeling alone, or out of control, or hearing voices, for example?" - N.B., Vancouver, WA

I usually answer this question with an emphatic, no. However, some "professionals" consider "sexual deviancy" a mental health issue. So, maybe I should say yes. In all honesty, I think it is a silly question. It's like asking, "Have you ever been visited by demons?" That was a typical and important question during the European witch trials of the 15th century. To the people back then it was an important and telling question. Someday, I believe, the question of "mental health issues" will seem just as ignorant.

However personal beliefs notwithstanding, several mental health experts have opined in court that I am psychotically delusional (and hence "legally incompetent"), while several others - perhaps a bit less "expert" - have opined that aside from a severe "personality disorder" (a term that the author of the Malleus Maleficarum could have invented) there is really nothing wrong with me mentally.

So, as it suited to the question, the answer is both yes and no, not to mention meaningless and hypocritical, all at the same time.