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If the OP works in a medical setting and had access to the person's actual medical records and then divulged the person's name along with specific medical information here on the forum, then there would be a problem. He didn't. If your doctor thinks you are a danger to yourself or others, then he/she can contact the authorities. The DPS can be argued to satisfy that description in this instance. If the OP is just going on casually knowing this person, then HIPPA has nothing to do with it. It does not restrict your friends and neighbors from telling what they know about you. It only restricts what people in the chain of access of your actual medical records can do with them.

He is just trying to do the right thing and we should all be glad after tragedies like Colorado. What do we think the news would have been happy to concentrate on if that crazy person had also had a CHL?

The DPS is not going to deny a license unless this person's diagnosis/history meets the legal guidelines set forth in the law for serious mental illness. They do not do it lightly nor for things that are minor. A person who needs meds to control mood may have one of those listed mental illnesses or may not. If he has been treated in a hospital and it was not a voluntary admission, that is of concern. If you inform the DPS, it will not be your call that causes a denial of this person's license, but the facts they find out as a result of investigation and even then, the decision can be appealed to a medical board.