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Beware Universal Mental Health Screening
Brownstone Institute ^ | August 21, 2025 | Cooper Davis, Jeffrey Lacasse

Posted on 08/21/2025 7:11:26 AM PDT by Heartlander

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1 posted on 08/21/2025 7:11:26 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
Rule #1: No one is coming to save you.

Such health "evaluations" unfortunately put diagnostics and treatment in the very hands of two primary entities that could be causing your mental health problems - your parents and your education indoctrination system.

2 posted on 08/21/2025 7:19:07 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Heartlander

It is very easy and even gratifying for teachers to label kids. It is often very harmful to a child. Drug use in children for the most part has been a disaster. Children’s personalities, coping skills and emotional framework evolve over a very long time. Pinning a “diagnosis” at any given point on that journey is a bad practice.


3 posted on 08/21/2025 7:26:50 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Heartlander

36. Denies manmade climate change.

37. Is homophobic about transgender sharing facilities.

38. Believes in parental rights.

etc. Very dangerous IMHO.


4 posted on 08/21/2025 7:27:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall)
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To: Heartlander

The time has come for separation of school and state.


5 posted on 08/21/2025 7:28:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Heartlander

Just sign your name across the boxes on #35. Refuses to share.

And then quit sharing your child with the school.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 7:35:03 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Heartlander

Good grief!

Those are just what we used to call “Growing Pains”.

How could the youths of the Late 1930s have ever won WW2, after going through the Great Depression?


7 posted on 08/21/2025 7:35:14 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: Heartlander
Screening every single child makes it inevitable that some healthy children will be thrust into the mental health pipeline.

I believe at this point we can call it a black hole.

8 posted on 08/21/2025 7:37:10 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Heartlander

I’m 81...Go for annual physical...every few years..Refused to play their mental games. I told my doctor why and he understood. He has a watchful eye...and I really appreciate him talking with me.


9 posted on 08/21/2025 7:37:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Heartlander

Just say NO to government control !!!!


10 posted on 08/21/2025 7:38:42 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Heartlander

So, #20. If the child gets an annual checkup from a doctor and gets a clean bill of health, that is a sign of mental illness.


11 posted on 08/21/2025 7:41:03 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Heartlander

The opt-out feature is deliberate, because these Democommies know a lot of children from objecting families will be caught in the net anyway. Interesting that the child himself can’t opt-out. Who thinks that these tests will be announced in advance?

And if a child inadvertently takes the survey and indicates “problem areas,” will the parents be scrutinized if they don’t heed the “treatment” advice?


12 posted on 08/21/2025 7:46:40 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: fwdude

If it’s a “pop quiz” and the child just wanted some attention that day...an adventure begins!


13 posted on 08/21/2025 7:49:44 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Heartlander

Teachers are NOT mental health professionals. I was and these questionnaires with children can be skewed easily. Identifying behavioral issues with children should never be a simple questionnaire that may follow them to the grave.

Sealed records at age 18? Maybe, maybe not. This is the big daddy government after all.


14 posted on 08/21/2025 7:51:10 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Heartlander

Uh, that would be a hard NO! To alter an old saying.... Show me the person and I’ll show you some mental issue.


15 posted on 08/21/2025 7:58:32 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: Karliner

I used to LOVE the academic assessment tests (we took Iowa Test of Basic Skills) in grade school, because it provided an opportunity to show off in areas that I shined (skience.) :)

But NOTHING like this one was on the horizon. Mental health and nurturing was something done in the home, and teachers stayed in their lane.


16 posted on 08/21/2025 7:58:49 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: fwdude

True. The sacred bleeders and idiot pop psych general education retards with a four year degree of fluffy schooling is going to judge a child with government weenie over reach?

Just say no.

I have too much to say on this and it’s all bad.


17 posted on 08/21/2025 8:02:15 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Karliner
A few of those questions might make some sense.

Most of them describe normal kids.

Whoever developed and forces this test on kids should be tested for insanity.

18 posted on 08/21/2025 8:11:39 AM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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To: Heartlander

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”


19 posted on 08/21/2025 8:18:18 AM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: allendale
It is very easy and even gratifying for teachers to label kids. Human beings are like "natural resource" ripe for exploitation by an elite class.
20 posted on 08/21/2025 8:19:58 AM PDT by aspasia
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