Your failure to pass the USSS polygraph wasn't necessarily associated with your anxiety disorder. Polygraphy is junk science and has no validity as a diagnostic test. The procedure is inherently biased against the truthful, and false positive outcomes are common even in people without an anxiety disorder.

Mentioning your anxiety disorder to your polygrapher is unlikely to help you. There is no standard protocol for polygraphers to follow when polygraphing people with anxiety disorders. Instead, mentioning your condition is likely to prejudice your polygrapher against you. For example, the polygrapher may well surmise that you're offering an excuse in advance for why you don't expect to pass. In addition, your polygrapher may have a personally belief that anyone with an anxiety disorder has no business being in law enforcement, and such bias could influence results.

I suggest that you arm yourself with knowledge before your polygraph. You'll find a thorough debunking of poygraphy, along with suggestions on how to reduce the risk of a false positive outcome, in The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, which you can download as a 1 mb PDF file here:

https://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf

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You are under no obligation to discuss your medical history with a polygraph operator.  Did your application ask whether or not you suffer from a psychological disorder?  If so, list it.  If not, it's none of their business.

BTW, I also suffer from an anxiety disorder (PD), and have a brother who suffers from OCD.  Not a big deal.  As for people with OCD working in LE, that is up to the hiring authority to decide.  Hey, look at "Monk", it makes him a better detective!   

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Good Luck

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I don't know whether the USSS's polygraph failure rate exceeds the FBI's ~50% failure rate, but the USSS polygraph unit has a reputation as the most abusive in federal law enforcement when it comes to pre-employment screening.