The Government IS the public. I agree that the public shouldn't necessarily know about your mental disabilities, but then you just shouldn't give this information to the government.
But maybe that shouldn't be necessary? It could also remain with the doctor, who then just approves that you should be eligible for financial help.
> But yeah, let's create second class citizens out of disabled people, great idea
You are fighting strawmen.
How can you say this (and seem to believe it)?
The Government is answerable to the public and should serve the public. But conflating the government with the public is simply bizarre, to my way of thinking.
Governments should be transparent as much as possible, yes. But that doesn't mean being necessarily transparent with sensitive information that they know about members of the public. Only with your (bizarre to me) conflation of the public with the government would this make any sense.