Depression in Teenagers: Experts Say to Screen All

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do not believe the lies

GO TO CCHR.COM DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIES THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MENTAL ILLNESS

re: "mental health lies"

Distress has been around since "way before the pharmaceutical companies were making money from selling remedies", but the mental illnesses that psychologists have devised to explain the distress are relatively recent inventions. It's anachronistic to look at (for example) a historical case of demon possession and say, "that was really schizophrenia" because modern psychiatry would explain it as such. At the time, the experts were quite certain it was demon possession, and that their cures would help, and the sufferers too were quite ready to understand their distress as demonic. Today, our experts are quite certain it's "schizophrenia", and that their drugs will help, and sufferers are quite ready to interpret their distress as a neurochemical problem. One day there will be different stories, of course: only the most naive and arrogant scientist would imagine that today's explanations will still carry the same weight in a hundred or two hundred years.

What matters is that some priests explained people's suffering in terms of supernatural problems that could only be cured by their expert knowledge of God, and some psychiatrists explain people's suffering in terms of brain problems that can only be cured by their expert knowledge of neurochemistry. In either case the experts are the winners. It is maybe too strong to call all this "lies" because the experts really believe in the truth and value of what they're doing, but I can sympathise with Sarah's outrage. There are plenty of other ways of interpreting unhappiness, confusion, etc: it does not have to be "offensive to those suffering from mental illnesses" to make these alternate explanations available. If we swallow the One True Scientific Explanation uncritically we will all wind up paying the pharmaceutical industry to keep our brains "healthy", just like people who swallowed the One True Religious Explanation paid the church to keep their souls "holy". Sometimes we need to ask bigger questions than "has little Johnny thought about killing himself lately". Questions like, "what kind of world is little Johnny growing up in?"

RE: "Mental Health Lies"

Sarah Glen of RI

The mental health industry is not based on lies. Mental illnesses have been around way before the pharmaceutical companies were making money from selling remedies. Do you think people suffering from schizophrenia are "lying" about their condition? Do you think people suffering from depression want to be in their state? The answer is no. I do believe that SSRIs and other psychoactive drugs need to be prescribed with more caution. However, Sarah, saying that the mental health field is based on lies is offensive to those suffering from mental illnesses.

Depression in Teenagers: Experts Say to Screen All

This is ridiculous. The whole mental health field is based on lies and then it is kept alive by lies while destroying and killing so many people and families. This is a big business and should be recognized as hypocritical, fraud and abuse.

Columbia University program

Hello,

This is the article's author. If anyone would would like more information about the Columbia University program mentioned, it's called TeenScreen. TeenScreen offers voluntary mental health screening for teenagers and teams up with schools, mental health organizations, and primary care providers to help flag kids at risk for mental illness and connect them with help.

Thanks.