Posted on 01/29/2024 8:35:58 PM PST by stars & stripes forever
Every child in Illinois government schools will be subjected to intrusive “mental health” screenings and data-gathering schemes starting this fall under a controversial new state law, opening the door for further mass-medicalization and surveillance of children as well as huge profits for politicians’ Big Pharma campaign donors. Critics are sounding the alarm.
The measure, adopted under the state’s Wellness Checks in Schools Program Act, is aimed at dealing with what policymakers describe as an explosion of “mental health” problems among children. The trends have been getting worse for years. But the government responses to COVID such as school shutdowns and mandated face masks reportedly caused a dramatic spike in mental issues.
Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, celebrated around the world for his war on psychiatric quackery such as lobotomies and electro-shock “therapy,” sounded the alarm about the Illinois plan. “This will lead to the mass medicalization of children — even more than is already being done to them — and create a storehouse on distorted psychiatric data and diagnoses that can ruin their lives,” he warned the Illinois Family Institute.
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My theory about the Biden dog(s) being in the White House:
Because his dog does not get along with the security dogs - that are also drug detectors.
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
...
Hey, TEACHER,
Leave them kids alone!
My mom was one where a three-week series of electroshock treatments in her 40s cured her depression for life. OTOH, a neighbor’s relative needs to get periodic on-going treatments with no end in sight.
That is an interesting theory.
Dogs are very sensitive to what their masters like and dislike and as protectors to their masters will act on what they pick up. Specific training is not really necessary.
Sometimes the more you zero in onto finding problems, the more you will seem to be finding problems.
With Biden dog(s) in the WH, SS do not let SS sec. dogs roam as much, if at all.
I didn’t find out about what she went thru until her first stroke in 1980.
She and Dad kept us in the dark. After a couple more strokes, she passed in 1986.
Peace for her at last.
Wow...
My kids would be out of that school in zero minutes.
My mother actually lived to 102 and was one of the happiest people you’d ever meet. She did have minor mood episodes in the years following the ect treatments but not debilitating depression.
Straight out of the commie/nazi propaganda playbook.
“Critics Blast Illinois Plan for “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children”
This is their HOOK to start removing kids from homes where they are spanked.
...just watch.
How do you prevent someone from passing a gun purchase background check?
Make sure they have mental health screening in their background records.
Dems are thinking long term.
Peter Breggin has been around for a very long time, mostly as a critic of intrusive psychiatric practices. When he graduated from Harvard it was still a reputable institution.
jmho.
You can be sure that a part of the “wellness check” will be questions about whether parents own guns. The drive continues to define gun ownership a “public health problem” thereby rendering it subject to a whole new raft of bureaucratic control via CDC.
nothing more than secular humanist voodoo witch doctors.
pseudo science both .
founded on secular humanism.
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