article_snippet: Die Welt, a German newspaper, cited an unidentified senior investigator who said Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz suffered from a severe "psychosomatic illness" and German police seized prescription drugs that treat the condition.
article_snippet: Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz suffered from a "severe subjective burnout syndrome" and from severe depression, the source told Die Welt.
article_snippet: Investigators continued to work Saturday to piece together the secret life of Lubitz, who officials say was hiding an illness from Die Welt employers.
article_snippet: Much attention has focused on Lubitz's state of mind, with some media reports speculating that he may have had mental health issues.
article_snippet: Investigators found a letter in the waste bin of his Dusseldorf, Germany, apartment saying that Lubitz, 27, wasn't fit to do his job, city prosecutor Christoph Kumpa said Friday.
article_snippet: Just what was ailing Lubitz hasn't been revealed.
article_snippet: The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported Friday that Lubitz suffered from mental illness and kept Lubitz diagnosis concealed from Lubitz employer.
article_snippet: A subsequent The New York Times report on Saturday, citing two officials with knowledge of the investigation, said Lubitz sought treatment before the crash for vision problems that might have put Lubitz career at risk.
article_snippet: According to those unnamed officials, Lubitz also was being treated for psychological issues.
article_snippet: Other media reports indicate Lubitz was treated for depression.
article_snippet: Lubitz passed Lubitz annual pilot recertification medical examination in summer 2014, a German aviation source told CNN.
article_snippet: An official with Lufthansa, which owns Germanwings, said the exam only tests physical health, not psychological health, and that if Lubitz had vision problems that would have been discovered during the tests.
article_snippet: If anything was wrong with Lubitz eyes during the physical exam CNN would have known," the official says.
article_snippet: the official also said Lufthansa was never given any indication Lubitz was depressed, and that if the official went to a doctor on the official own  
article_snippet: But the University Clinic said the University Clinic had not treated Lubitz for depression.
article_snippet: Germanwings corroborated that assertion, saying that assertion had never received a sick note from Lubitz.
article_snippet: Authorities left Lubitz's apartment Friday night with boxes of papers and evidence folders after spending about 90 minutes inside.
article_snippet: Asked by a journalist about reports of Lubitz's possible mental illness, he replied: "The elements of the investigation in the coming days are strictly confidential and we cannot address these matters today.
article_snippet: Lubitz had passed medical and psychological testing when Lubitz was hired in 2013, said Spohr.
article_snippet: Spohr also told reporters that Lubitz had "interrupted" Lubitz pilot training, which Lubitz began in 2008.
article_snippet: While Lubitz Lubitz had sought treatment for hasn't been revealed, that Lubitz was declared unfit for work is an important detail, aviation analysts say.