Illinois recently enacted a law requiring annual mental health screenings for all public school students in grades 3 through 12—a policy that is deeply alarming given the well-documented failures of past screening programs, which wrongly labeled children, fueled overdiagnosis, and opened the door to unnecessary and dangerous psychiatric drugging of children and teens.
The dangers of school-based mental health screening are exemplified by the now-defunct TeenScreen program, once implemented in over 2,800 sites across 47 U.S. states. Promoted as a tool to identify depression in teens, the program came under fire for its deeply flawed methodology—most notably an 84% false positive rate. This meant that the majority of students flagged by the screening were wrongly labeled as depressed, often leading to psychiatric referrals and prescriptions for antidepressantsknown to carry serious risks, including aggression, emotional blunting, and suicidal ideation.
These flawed assessments pathologized normal emotional responses as mental illness, and the program’s failure serves as a clear warning: this approach ultimately benefits the psycho-pharmaceutical industry—not the childrenit claims to protect.
Sad news for California families. AB495 passed Senate, going to Assembly for a quick concurrence vote as it was amended and headed to Gavin Newsom’s desk.
This bill would allow an adult - 5 degrees of separation- to take guardianship over a minor and make medical and educational decisions for that child. The bill passed quickly and silently as this is Gavins administration “Trump proofing California”. Well intentioned policy doesnt matter when that policy is dangerous.
I’m not just asking are you a Christian anymore ima start asking are you a FOLLOWER of Christ. Way too many people claiming to be Christians yet they look just like the world doing exactly what the world does, when Jesus literally said the world will hate you for his name sake… yea something ain’t adding up
Biblically and definitional, you quite literally CANT be a liberal and a Christian.
You CAN be conservative and be Christian.
This doesn’t mean all conservatives live Christian lives
I’m just saying, definitional and biblically, it’s a possible scenario.
Psychiatric Drugs—Side Effects https://t.co/Fktd7ZkONM
Psychiatrists claim that brain scans now show brain changes that “prove” mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and depression, are brain based. There is no scientific evidence to prove this: it remains what the “fine print” in the studies tell you: “suggests,” “may” and “it is hoped.”