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Critics Blast Illinois Plan for “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children
Illinois Family Institute ^ | 1/29/2024 | Alex Newmen

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at illinoisfamily.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Testing; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: arth; breggin; illinois; mentalhealth; peterbregggin; publicschool
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To: TigersEye

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.


21 posted on 01/29/2024 9:14:56 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: stars & stripes forever

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
...
Hey, TEACHER,
Leave them kids alone!


22 posted on 01/29/2024 9:17:25 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: telescope115

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.


23 posted on 01/29/2024 9:18:38 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: linMcHlp

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.


24 posted on 01/29/2024 9:20:05 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Sometimes the more you zero in onto finding problems, the more you will seem to be finding problems.


25 posted on 01/29/2024 9:23:09 PM PST by lee martell
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To: TigersEye

With Biden dog(s) in the WH, SS do not let SS sec. dogs roam as much, if at all.


26 posted on 01/29/2024 9:25:15 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: steve86

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.


27 posted on 01/29/2024 9:44:12 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Wow...

My kids would be out of that school in zero minutes.


28 posted on 01/29/2024 9:55:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: telescope115

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.


29 posted on 01/29/2024 10:06:43 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: metmom

Straight out of the commie/nazi propaganda playbook.


30 posted on 01/29/2024 11:57:28 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

“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.


31 posted on 01/30/2024 3:27:00 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: stars & stripes forever

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.


32 posted on 01/30/2024 4:36:43 AM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (The love of many has grown cold. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: NorthMountain

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.


34 posted on 01/30/2024 6:34:00 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: stars & stripes forever
policymakers describe as an explosion of “mental health” that are the results of the policies they make.

jmho.

35 posted on 01/30/2024 6:37:28 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

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.


36 posted on 01/30/2024 6:37:49 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: cuz1961
and read the earliest works of the founders of psychiatry like Freud Jung nitche ect,,, occultist sick puppies every last one of them.

nothing more than secular humanist voodoo witch doctors.

37 posted on 01/30/2024 6:42:09 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: cuz1961
psychiatry psychology

pseudo science both .

founded on secular humanism.

38 posted on 01/30/2024 6:47:40 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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