Hmmm here’s a question for the kids survey - Do you fell free to speak your mind during class or do you feel that your teachers will vilify you if you don’t conform?
I feel for your wife having to work in a system like this; but it does make me feel better that there are still teachers out there that see through it.
Biden said the quiet part out loud "They're all our children... they're not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom". State control of kids = control of fearful parents, straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
How ‘bout we have the teachers and administrators take some seriously intensive psychological screening before we allow them anywhere near our kids? They’re the ones who need it!!
It used to be a standing joke that college kids taking Psych 101, or worse yet Abnormal Psych or the like, would tend to self-diagnose themselves with any number of the conditions they were learning about in class or read about in the textbook. But no one took those “diagnoses” seriously. The world has changed, and not for the better.
Yes! The phenomenon of iatrogenesis. My Abnormal Psych professor warned and joked about it and said it’s a phenomenon among medical students studying disease and conditions too.
Todays western bureaucrats, teachers, and school administrators:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S.Lewis.
Am I wrong? Don't they believe that they are doing this for our own good? Don't they know what is best for our children? Doesn't it "take a village," as Hillary told us?
Abigail is a heroine of our times. (I would instead require of American schoolchildren that they memorize the Ten Commandments and The Pledge of Allegiance. Also: Parents must guarantee regular outdoor playtime for their children--as well as dedicate a certain number of hours per week that they spend directly involved in activities with their children.)
The annual wellness checks are now mental health screening and filling prescriptions or physical areas of concern can only happen at a sick visit (adults also). The questions don’t offer accurate choices. For instance, you can’t answer that you are rarely anxious. You have to choose between extremes and sometimes. So never, sometimes, or always. How is this helpful? You have to coach the kids to say never because sometimes is a red flag, but never is also untrue for all humans. Insurance is collecting information about issues you don’t care about and having you pay a copay for health issues that actually matter.
As a psychiatrist, I am temperamentally inclined to want to see people who might need professional help get properly diagnosed and successfully treated. However, I must admit that I agree with all of the points you have elucidated in this essay.
Consider this. Now that I've collected the stories and testimonies of 73 trans widows, women who divorced a suddenly demanding, suddenly full-time crossdressing husband, I've become aware of the mental health disaster of the children these narcissists fathered. With 37 children in the offspring cohort, some still too young to have a fully expressed reaction, the frequency of suicidal ideation is 7 of them, with 4 requiring hospitalization after a serious attempt. Yes, this is a small sample. But no one else is looking at this. In my own therapy for PTSD that included cardiac-mimicking symptoms (now much relieved by my program of movement, helping other trans widows and gardening) I was often asked if I had thoughts of suicide. I had to fill out a form before every appointment and repeat my replies before any therapy commenced. Oddly, the therapy involved the mind-training of cognitive behavior therapy, which is learning to think about something else! Here's a window into the healing movement series I developed:
Jordan Peterson: “There is no difference between thinking about oneself and being miserable." So Illinois is going to get kids to think about themselves in the name of promoting mental health. I'm glad I have no kids in the Illinois public schools.
Hmmm here’s a question for the kids survey - Do you fell free to speak your mind during class or do you feel that your teachers will vilify you if you don’t conform?
Love this. My wife is a high school teacher and when I told her what was in “Bad Therapy” she said, “I see it everyday.”
Also, as a counselor, it’s not supposed to be this way. It’s just not. But the industry (especially the APA) is ideologically captured.
I feel for your wife having to work in a system like this; but it does make me feel better that there are still teachers out there that see through it.
Biden said the quiet part out loud "They're all our children... they're not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom". State control of kids = control of fearful parents, straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
How ‘bout we have the teachers and administrators take some seriously intensive psychological screening before we allow them anywhere near our kids? They’re the ones who need it!!
Keep your damn hands off our kids!!
I agree. My mom thought I was suicidal when I was a teenager just because my poems were deep. Thanks goodness she didn’t throw me into counseling.
It used to be a standing joke that college kids taking Psych 101, or worse yet Abnormal Psych or the like, would tend to self-diagnose themselves with any number of the conditions they were learning about in class or read about in the textbook. But no one took those “diagnoses” seriously. The world has changed, and not for the better.
Yes! The phenomenon of iatrogenesis. My Abnormal Psych professor warned and joked about it and said it’s a phenomenon among medical students studying disease and conditions too.
When your problems are someone else’s bread and butter, bad things tend to happen more often than you’d expect
Couldn’t agree with you more! This is so incredibly harmful!
Todays western bureaucrats, teachers, and school administrators:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S.Lewis.
Am I wrong? Don't they believe that they are doing this for our own good? Don't they know what is best for our children? Doesn't it "take a village," as Hillary told us?
Brilliant. I saw this all the time as a middle school teacher.
The Pritzker Family is behind much of the trans funding.
Of course they are...one of the cousins has transitioned
And Jennifer Pritzker is trans.
That questionnaire will undoubtedly put thoughts of suicide in more kids heads than the number of kids it will ever save. How absolutely appalling.
Asking someone if they are thinking about suicide does not make them suicidal.
https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2021/atp-normalize-talking-about-suicide#:~:text=I%20do%20not%20want%20to,when%20a%20warning%20sign%20appears.
It’s not a standard question that should be asked as a baseline for any large cohort.
Abigail is a heroine of our times. (I would instead require of American schoolchildren that they memorize the Ten Commandments and The Pledge of Allegiance. Also: Parents must guarantee regular outdoor playtime for their children--as well as dedicate a certain number of hours per week that they spend directly involved in activities with their children.)
Bravo, exactly what is needed less screen time and more time in the sun!
The annual wellness checks are now mental health screening and filling prescriptions or physical areas of concern can only happen at a sick visit (adults also). The questions don’t offer accurate choices. For instance, you can’t answer that you are rarely anxious. You have to choose between extremes and sometimes. So never, sometimes, or always. How is this helpful? You have to coach the kids to say never because sometimes is a red flag, but never is also untrue for all humans. Insurance is collecting information about issues you don’t care about and having you pay a copay for health issues that actually matter.
As a psychiatrist, I am temperamentally inclined to want to see people who might need professional help get properly diagnosed and successfully treated. However, I must admit that I agree with all of the points you have elucidated in this essay.
Consider this. Now that I've collected the stories and testimonies of 73 trans widows, women who divorced a suddenly demanding, suddenly full-time crossdressing husband, I've become aware of the mental health disaster of the children these narcissists fathered. With 37 children in the offspring cohort, some still too young to have a fully expressed reaction, the frequency of suicidal ideation is 7 of them, with 4 requiring hospitalization after a serious attempt. Yes, this is a small sample. But no one else is looking at this. In my own therapy for PTSD that included cardiac-mimicking symptoms (now much relieved by my program of movement, helping other trans widows and gardening) I was often asked if I had thoughts of suicide. I had to fill out a form before every appointment and repeat my replies before any therapy commenced. Oddly, the therapy involved the mind-training of cognitive behavior therapy, which is learning to think about something else! Here's a window into the healing movement series I developed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlaASFJkh0&list=PLOFlPPQm71Ii-l-xoAlBZc5Iy9xZyfbUY&index=10
Jordan Peterson: “There is no difference between thinking about oneself and being miserable." So Illinois is going to get kids to think about themselves in the name of promoting mental health. I'm glad I have no kids in the Illinois public schools.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers