Mental Health Screening – Fraud

Children throughout the United States have been subjected to mental health screening and/or informal questioning from the psychiatric industry, for decades,  and yet there is no biological test to evidence that any mental health or behavioral health disorder exists. 

Your child, the youth that you have invested your time, energy and care into, has been prey for an industry that is not mainaining their promise "to do no harm".  Labeling is harmful.  Especially becuase it is a result of a vote in a room full with psychiatrists who have proven ties to the pharmaceutical industry; and it is harmful when it follows the child all the way through their school years and into adulthood. 

June 14, 2005, Benedict Carey, of the New York Times, is quoted as writing "Psychiatrists have been searching for more than a century for some biological marker for mental disease, to little avail."

In addition to the lack of science behind diagnosing and labeling a child, is the subjective and unscientific nature of the questions that are asked of the children, either in a school setting, a psychiatrist's office or elsewhere. 

In all honesty, you as an adult, might surely know that sometimes you or your adult friend may feel irritable in life, perhaps for an hour or two or a day or two.  You, can possibly relate to feeling easily fatigued at different points in your life.  Perhaps you also have felt restless or on edge.  These 3 characteristics, alone could label your child as having Generalized Anxiety, per the bogus  labeling checklist that is used by the psychiatric industry. 

Any parent who has witnessed a child before a school math exam, or before their first prom, or even when they start at a new school, would surely say that their child is only experiencing "life", normal life's challenges, and would not consider those responses to normal life's challenges to qualify as a mental health disorder.

Reason and rationale has escaped the mental health field for too long.  Parents have the right to research these subjects on their own and to determine, with full information, what is best for their child. 

In fact, parents have the right to reject any suggestion for their child to receive mental health screening.

On a very informative Mental Health Watchdog website, Psychsearch you will find factual information about the process of mental health screening such as TeenScreen, the vested interests behind this fraudulent practice and  your rights and the rights of your child.

Just, as you will read, per the Journal of American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 2002, "A survey of recently trained child psychiatrists found the treatment for 9 out of 10 children consisted of drugging."

When you, as a parent, do your research, remember to look at the FDA warnings on the drugs given to children.  The FDA's  website gives you a search option where you can put in the name of any psychiatric drug and find out what is required by law to list as warnings and adverse side effects.  Among those warnings and side effects, you will find that the drugs can cause hallucinations, mania, psychoses, suicidal thoughts and sudden death.

You as a parent have the right to be fully informed.  You have the right to all the research that is available and the results of many decades of untold tragedies that have occured when parents were not fully informed.