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Feds Seek “Mental Health” Testing of All Children, Adults
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/22620-feds-seek-mental-health-testing-of-all-children-adults ^

Posted on 02/27/2016 12:23:12 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Next time you visit your doctor, be careful how you respond to his questions, or you may just be branded “mentally ill” and subjected to “treatment.” That is because a panel advising the Obama administration, in partnership with Big Psychiatry, wants to make doctors subject all American adults and children over age 12 to screening for alleged “mental health” disorders — particularly depression, at least to start with. Then, anyone found to harbor any alleged mental disorder, including children as young as eight, should undergo “therapy,” often including powerful psychotropic medications that experts say have dubious value but often come with well-documented and highly dangerous side effects.

Your ObamaCare plan will be forced to pay for it, whether you want it or not, thanks to the federal government's commandeering of the health-insurance industry under the so-called Affordable Care Act. And eventually, younger and younger children will be in Big Brother's crosshairs for mental and behavioral health “services,” whether parents want it or not. School teachers, social workers, and more are all already being enlisted in the federal government's search for supposed “mental and behavioral health” issues — a list that is perpetually expanding as psychiatrists invent new “illnesses.” The outcry against the federal government's obsession with your mind and the minds of America's children, though, is growing louder, as critics call the agenda “depressing” and worry whether it is another scheme to disarm more Americans.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: aca; banglist; banglost; guncontrol; mentalhealthtesting; mentalillness; obama; obamacare; psychology; thenewamerican
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To: Red in Blue PA
but filthy disease ridden queers are considered normal...
41 posted on 02/27/2016 1:32:10 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: stockpirate
They want to put everyone on drugs, numb of all the pain of thinking for themselves.

The "confessional" scene from THX 1138.

42 posted on 02/27/2016 1:33:39 PM PST by Samwell Tarly
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To: Red in Blue PA

I believe sadly that a lot of people are eager to wield this power, psych evals, and many already do in law enforcement, teaching, human resources, and elsewhere.

Look how often on the internet people are analyzing and deeming others bipolar, sociopaths, or having narcissistic personality disorder and so on.

It’s probably only a matter of time before we give our govt the power to stamp these labels on our ID cards and determine everything in our lives from schooling to jobs to healthcare and freedom.


43 posted on 02/27/2016 1:34:51 PM PST by sockhead
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To: stockpirate

I take BP meds. When I have to go back to my GP to renew
prescriptions, I just say I’m OK.


44 posted on 02/27/2016 1:37:24 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: grania

Your experience doesn’t surprise me. I just posted about how many professions already wield this power, making ridiculous “psych” evaluations. I left out healthcare workers, doctors.


45 posted on 02/27/2016 1:38:15 PM PST by sockhead
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To: Red in Blue PA
"..worry whether it is another scheme to disarm more Americans.

it is.

the government never has good intentions. A friend of mine was foolish enough to allow the government into her life to help her with her son who was struggling in school. They told her they wanted to help and she believed them. Now they visit her home weekly and she has to bring her son and whole family for "therapy" 3 times a week. They of course want to put him on meds but she hasn't gone along with that. She regrets ever getting them involved in her family. They made her find a new home so that he could have his own room for privacy and have told her that he will be taken away if she disciplines him in a manner they find unacceptable. Needless to say he is still getting straight Fs.

46 posted on 02/27/2016 1:38:28 PM PST by uncitizen (Investigate Scaliagate!)
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To: Neidermeyer

Exactly. Obamacare casts a dragnet across every citizen. The mandate sees to it.


47 posted on 02/27/2016 1:40:24 PM PST by kdot
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To: Red in Blue PA

When did all doctors gain psychiatric liscences?


48 posted on 02/27/2016 1:47:11 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Red in Blue PA

But no therapy for homosexuals of transgender. They’re normal.


49 posted on 02/27/2016 2:01:17 PM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Twinkie

When I lived in Minnestoopid, I would just put up the act like I was a typical Minnesotan barking moonbat. When the nurse asked me if I owned guns, the reply was “No! Guns are dangerous!” I would dumb down the amount of bicycling because people my age were simply not supposed to be fit. So I applied a lot of disinformation and maskirovka.


50 posted on 02/27/2016 2:23:16 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Renegade

And yet the APA doesn’t consider a man who thinks he is a woman is mentally ill, and now the federal government protects those who do.


51 posted on 02/27/2016 3:07:53 PM PST by tbw2
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To: The Antiyuppie

Christian therapists are being told they can’t refuse to treat homosexuals who don’t want to be homosexual (conversion therapy). Chris Christie was even proud to sign that law in NJ.
Nor in some states can they tell mentally ill who think they are an opposite gender to rectify mind with reality, in some states.
In these cases, the only legally allowed therapy is yeah, you’re homosexual, OK, you think you’re a woman, let’s start hormones and plan on surgery.
So no, the religious exemption to intrusive questions isn’t allowed.


52 posted on 02/27/2016 3:10:06 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Red in Blue PA

Then they can restrict them from owning guns.


53 posted on 02/27/2016 3:38:25 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man St anding.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

and be put on a “no buy guns” list.


54 posted on 02/27/2016 3:56:31 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

We are now officially the new Soviet Union.


55 posted on 02/27/2016 3:58:28 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Red in Blue PA; Old Sarge; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; ...
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56 posted on 02/27/2016 4:07:19 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Red in Blue PA

Perdinavititis.


57 posted on 02/27/2016 4:09:04 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: lurk
Someone could make some money writing a book of five-word answers to doctors’ personal questions.

I only need a three-word answer.

And funny, the first word is always "Go" and the third word is always "Yourself".

Unless, of course, I need to embellish for color.

58 posted on 02/27/2016 4:11:13 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Who gets to decide who is a 'mental defective' and remove them from the effective population?

(Sure sounds like another program from the last century, maybe a couple of them).

59 posted on 02/27/2016 4:21:34 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: kdot
I think this is the ultimate goal of the government - to disarm us.

That is just the beginning, slavery and a trip to the 'recyclers' come later.

60 posted on 02/27/2016 4:23:16 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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