Is your teen being screened for mental illness without your consent?

[Selena_Kitt]

This Teen Screen is very very scary, folks...

 

[Liar]

Not as scary as the staggering amount of troubled teens out there who, yes, needs help...if you ask me.

If I had needed parental consent to get my mental state examined then I was a kid, I wouldn't have gotten the help I needed. Because my folks would say "There's nothing wrong with my son's head. He's just being a typical teenager. Go away."

This may be a wrong way to go about it, and there have probably been cases of violation of parental rights, but come on... the article (or should I say opinion piece) made it look like the people behind Teen Screen are a conspiracy of twisted demonic freaks who wants to destroy the youth of America and eat their souls.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

the article (or should I say opinion piece) made it look like the people behind Teen Screen are a conspiracy of twisted demonic freaks who wants to destroy the youth of America and eat their souls.

and your point?

Really, its aim isn't helping kids, per se... its aim is making money... go figure... the bill that was passed that made this possible was lobbied for by the pharmaceutical companies...

 

[Liar]

A bit like accident-hunting vulture lawyers then, huh?

But still, the principal I think is sound - teens shouldn't need parental consent to get psychiatric treatment. Sometimes the most pressure to be "normal" and "sane" comes from home.

But, they should seek it, it shouldn't be bullied upon them by mr DrugCo, if that's the case here.

Oh, and not to turn this into a politic thread, but the aim of all corporate health care is to make money.

 

[minsue]

and your point?

Really, its aim isn't helping kids, per se... its aim is making money... go figure... the bill that was passed that made this possible was lobbied for by the pharmaceutical companies...

All bills are lobbied for by somebody. That doesn't mean that the people talking to these children aren't actually trying to lower the suicide rate or help a teenager with no one to talk to and parents who think they're fine, just moody ungrateful teens. Better to leave them with no help to try to survive and hope they make it through, lest they get sucked in to the evil web of those conniving "mental health" (scare quotes from the article, not my own) professionals?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I'd also like to point out that the article is actually a 'guest opinion', not an actual report, hence the heavy anti TeenScreen bias.

 

[Liar]

I'd also like to point out that the article is actually a 'guest opinion', not an actual report, hence the heavy anti TeenScreen bias.

That's pretty much what made me reply. It was very one sided and opinionated (not to mention presenting debatable issues as fact, like that there are no exact diagnosis of mental illness).

And I'm, well, the biggest pro-et-contra whore in modern age.