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Michelle Obama Pushes for Mental Health Evaluations as Backdoor Gun Control
Freedom Outpost ^ | 3/6/2015 | Suzanne Hamner

Posted on 03/07/2015 6:27:22 AM PST by HomerBohn

Share2.3K Tweet91 Share2.6K 145 Email8 Michelle Obama has come out swinging in support of her husband's views on seeking treatment for mental health issues. The woman, who has decimated our children's school lunches, reducing them to unattractive mush in the name of "promoting healthy eating habits," relayed to Newseum on Wednesday that Barack Obama strongly believed that receiving treatment for mental health disorders was a "sign of strength," not weakness. Of course, it was just another way to promote Obamacare and its benefits in light of the upcoming Supreme Court challenge.

According to CNSnews.com:

"It's time to tell everyone who's dealing with a mental health issue that they're not alone, and that getting support and treatment isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength," said Mrs. Obama. "That's something that my husband believes strongly as president, because in this country when you're fighting an illness whether that's mental or physical you should be able to get the help you need, end of story."

"That's why the Affordable Care Act expands mental health and substance abuse benefits and parity protections for roughly 60 million Americans, and it requires new plans to cover things like depression screening for adults and behavioral assessments for kids," she said.

If you have a mental illness, you should be able to get the help you need, end of story. It sounds an awfully lot like, "if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan, period." Everyone knows how that has turned out since the implementation of Obamacare.

The low-information voter listening to this first part of Moochie's little spiel will be taken in to seek help for even the slightest case of "the blahs" only to be diagnosed with depression, sent home with pharmaceuticals and tagged in the system as having a "mental illness." With Obamacare "requesting" doctors to ask patients about guns, the American Psychiatric Association inventing new mental health disorders every week, and Obama avidly pursuing elements of "gun control" leading to confiscation, it isn't hard to connect the dots to see that Moochie is pandering for an agenda – Obamacare recipients, their families, and others to seek "help" for mental health and substance abuse in order to gain a backdoor to gun control.

Doctors will now be doing "depression screening" for adults and "behavioral assessments" for children under the guise of improving America's mental health status. Normal childhood behavior, in many cases, has been diagnosed as some "mental health" disorder or attention deficit resulting in children being overly medicated. It has been almost the same with adults.

Just recently, I went to see my physician for a possible sinus infection. My sciatica and arthritis also happened to be acting up that day causing some additional severe pain. The first thing my doctor said was "You look like you're depressed." He immediately assumed a problem without asking based on my facial expression. Luckily, I didn't have the "blahs" that day.

The sponsor of the event featuring Mrs. Obama as a speaker, Give An Hour, held this summit to launch their new "movement," "Campaign to Change Direction." This "movement has developed a network of 7,000 mental health providers, who offer pro-bono services to veterans, service members, their families, and friends urging all Americans to learn signs that someone might be in emotional distress." It sounds eerily like the "see something, say something" campaign for federal employees to spy on each other and report possible "subversive" activities.

Of course, Moochie's promotion of seeking services for mental health illness is perfectly altruistic. She and Obama want mental health illness to be viewed and treated the same way as a physical illness. What better way to promote that than to offer it for "free."

"There should be absolutely no stigma around mental health. None. Zero," Mrs. Obama said.

She indicated it was time to "flip the script" on mental health in the United States, claiming it was not just a policy or budget issue, but a cultural one.

"Every year, one in five adults or more than 40 million Americans experience a diagnosis of a mental condition like depression or anxiety, and our young people are affected at similar rates ...."

"This shouldn't be surprising to any of us, because let's face it, life can be stressful," she added. "Folks are faced with all kinds of challenges …. Then you add social, psychological and genetic factors on top of all that, and sometimes it's just too much," she said.

There is not one individual who has not experienced some form of anxiety or depression. In fact, some types of anxiety or anxiousness is not negative, but positive. No one can say they have not experienced some form of depression or extreme sadness upon the death of a loved one, family member or animal they loved. These are normal situational emotions that resolve over time. Going through the five stages of grief is normal where you experience denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Visiting your doctor when you are in any stage but acceptance could be risky these days.

Under Obama, the number of unemployed individuals has increased with some giving up on even finding a job and having to go on government assistance. How many individuals are unemployed right now in this country who are feeling a sense of "loss" and "helplessness" because they cannot support their families or themselves? Probably quite a few. These are normal emotional responses to life situations, but it doesn't mean someone needs mental health treatment.

To hear Moochie talk, the slightest little deviation from being "happy" is cause for seeking mental health services.

It has been reported that the American Psychiatric Association has added new "mental health" diagnoses to the DSM – 5, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to include patriotic behaviors and exercising unalienable rights.

As far as the children are concerned, "behavioral assessments" could mean more unnecessary medicating of our children and nipping their rights to gun ownership in the bud early. If parents don't agree, they could be hit with some sort of "mental health" diagnosis or charge of neglect.

One can't help but see the irony of the "First Lady" of the United States pandering for every American adult and child to seek "mental health" or "behavioral" assessments, having family and friends become "monitors" of mental health along with everyone else, and getting "treatment" when her husband has some of the most troubling mental disorders – mythomania (pathological, chronic lying), narcissistic personality disorder, anti-social personality disorder and being a psychopath. If seeking treatment for mental health disorders is "a sign of strength," Obama should go first for his assessment so he can receive treatment for his many mental health illnesses. Of course, Obama doesn't have to go for an assessment or evaluation of his mental health. All of his disorders are prominently on display for all the public to see.

The point is everyone experiences what can be termed as "situational depression" or "situational anxiety," including a physical illness or ailment that causes an emotional response. These are temporary and not deserving of any "mental health" evaluation or treatment. When the situation or physical illness is resolved, these normal emotional responses abate. These are a far cry from what can be termed "clinical depression" or "clinical anxiety" that may require some form of intervention. And, the APA is vastly designating an increasing the number of "normal" behaviors as mental health disorders.

But, to hear Moochie talk, the least little burp warrants an assessment; and, that is exactly what will happen and is happening under the bureaucratic panel guidelines for Obamacare, giving a back door into gun control and possibly confiscation because of a "mental health illness." If the goal was to de-stigmatize mental illness and its treatment, it actually has had the opposite effect: preventing individuals from seeking help because of the threat of eradicating many unalienable rights.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; mental; mentalhealth; moochelle; obamacare; obamazombies; wookiealert
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Someone should push Moochie out the back door of the now disgraced White Hut. An evaluation of her, and his, mental condition would land them directly into a padded cell and a straitjacket.

Moocher continues to dictate policy and has already made a total fool of herself by playing the role of a nutritionist. If anyone needs a mental health evaluation, it is her and that thing she's welded to.

1 posted on 03/07/2015 6:27:22 AM PST by HomerBohn
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To: HomerBohn

Uh, heck yeah. Mental health eval for moochie would be rather revealing. Delusions of grandeur. Don’t it make you proud to know that we’ll be paying to keep her in the lap of luxury the rest of our miserable lives? :>}


2 posted on 03/07/2015 6:29:53 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: HomerBohn

Who elected this failed lawyer to propose legislation of any kind? She is married to the Worst President in History, but that is her only accomplishment. No where in the Constitution does being married to the President constitute an office. We should have made this clear long ago and not given a dime of tax money to First Ladies.


3 posted on 03/07/2015 6:31:28 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: HomerBohn

YEAH RIGHT MOOCHELL..with your husband that has the classic major Narcissistic Personality Disorder

4 posted on 03/07/2015 6:32:51 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: HomerBohn
Crikey - Meeeechelle strikes again!


5 posted on 03/07/2015 6:33:18 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: HomerBohn

Wasn’t there just recently a man in the news, in California, against whom this was used? He had recently lost his wife or something, IIRC, went for treatment for depression (as would be expected under the circumstances) and the next thing he knew, LE was at his door confiscating his permitted weapons. I’m sure that I have the details wrong, but it was to this effect. The point is that they’re doing this already, and trying to broaden the net.


6 posted on 03/07/2015 6:35:01 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: HomerBohn

Folks, gun control is their next agenda. They’ve accomplished every other socialist goal on their list. This is the one thing that will give them the ability to strip all other rights if they get it. We have no one in Washington that is on our side and its obvious Congress and the Supreme Court has been bought and paid for (or blackmailed). Its time to fight like never before.


7 posted on 03/07/2015 6:37:40 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: HomerBohn

Dear Michelle,
You first, bitch.


8 posted on 03/07/2015 6:38:57 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: HomerBohn
These people are a scandal.
9 posted on 03/07/2015 6:39:22 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: HomerBohn

Prospective White House occupants should be subjected to a mental health evaluation.


10 posted on 03/07/2015 6:43:37 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: HomerBohn
Hey moose ... y'might be better served to push for mental background checks on all democrats .... especially the ones already in office

Start with the faggot you're associated with ... and yourself

11 posted on 03/07/2015 6:46:50 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: HomerBohn
One can't help but see the irony of the "First Lady" of the United States pandering for every American adult and child to seek "mental health" or "behavioral" assessments, having family and friends become "monitors" of mental health along with everyone else, and getting "treatment" when her husband has some of the most troubling mental disorders – mythomania (pathological, chronic lying), narcissistic personality disorder, anti-social personality disorder and being a psychopath. If seeking treatment for mental health disorders is "a sign of strength," Obama should go first for his assessment so he can receive treatment for his many mental health illnesses. Of course, Obama doesn't have to go for an assessment or evaluation of his mental health. All of his disorders are prominently on display for all the public to see.

Preach it!

12 posted on 03/07/2015 6:49:13 AM PST by Campion
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To: HomerBohn

Ever take a sleep aid for insomnia?

The Government will say you cannot own a firearm.

Are you a veteran?

The Governmwent will say you cannot own a firearm.

You have “discriminated” against “gays” by believing in your Christianity?

The Government will say you cannot own a firearm.


13 posted on 03/07/2015 6:53:07 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: HomerBohn

Lets start with hers.


14 posted on 03/07/2015 6:57:09 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: HomerBohn

IIRC, the guy who shot up that movie theater in CO was not only under psychiatric care at the time of the shooting, but admitted to his psychiatrist that he fantasized about killing a lot of people. He was not reported to the authorities because of physician–patient privilege.


15 posted on 03/07/2015 6:57:24 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> It has been reported that the American Psychiatric Association has added new “mental health” diagnoses to the DSM – 5, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to include patriotic behaviors and exercising unalienable rights.

I rather doubt that, but if someone has a good source for that, it would be bigger news than Moochelle’s cookie monster raid on the Bill of Rights.


16 posted on 03/07/2015 7:07:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: HomerBohn

I think that all U.S. Presidential candidates should have a thorough mental evaluation made available to the voters and that elected Presidents undergo a mental evaluation every year, also made available to the public. It would be interesting to find out what psychosis Obama has.


17 posted on 03/07/2015 7:14:26 AM PST by TonyM
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To: HomerBohn

Oh for the good old days when a First Lady was expected to entertain Senator’s wives, plan parties for politicians, and stay out of everyone’s personal lunch boxes.

But N-o-0-0-o. She has to meddle in everyone’s lives and make everyone around her uncomfortable.


18 posted on 03/07/2015 7:31:21 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: HomerBohn

Very well said. Meanwhile their healthcare system pushes narcotics not fixes for pain. They will use that as an excuse to come after your guns.

I take Valium for Fibromyalgia because their side effect riddled Elipisey drugs are POISONS to my system. And FMS is not Elipisey, it is a progressive painful muscle disease.

If you were a good nutritionist you’d reverse the food plate and grains would be the last and smallest on it.


19 posted on 03/07/2015 7:56:19 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: jsanders2001

“Folks, gun control is their next agenda. They’ve accomplished every other socialist goal on their list. This is the one thing that will give them the ability to strip all other rights if they get it. We have no one in Washington that is on our side and its obvious Congress and the Supreme Court has been bought and paid for (or blackmailed). Its time to fight like never before.”

I decided to repost your very important assessment. It is dead on!


20 posted on 03/07/2015 8:10:06 AM PST by dforest
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