The Great Mental Health Hoax
By James Donahue
With so many public shootings occurring there is a lot of talk in Washington about gun control. Also the subject of mental health screening has been batted around once again.
A form of public metal health screening called Teenscreen was tried by the Bush Administration. It was quickly found to be a failed and fraudulant program and was shut down in 2012. Too many young people were improperly classified as suffering from some form of mental illness. But the concept remains implanted in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and thus the blueprint exists for mass mental health screening to rear its ugly head once again.
The reasoning might be that screening like this would expose the would-be terrorists lurking among us. After all, they would think, anyone who would shoot up a crowded theater or blow themselves up in a crowded public building, bus or on an open street must be nuts.
What a national screening like that might do (as occurred with Teenscreen) is put a government computerized peg on the heads of a lot of innocent people who fail to fit within a mold of social conformity. Thus the brilliant minds, the people who would rather take a quiet walk in the woods than attended a crowded and nonsensical football game, and the various social misfits that seek their own path rather than pray to Jesus, could be singled out as enemies of the state.
This is a frightening thought. I find myself fitting in the role of the social non-conformist. But it does not necessarily make me mentally ill. It merely means I choose my own path for my life.
The whole concept of government sponsored mental health has been a scam on the American public for years. We would all do well to not trust anything generated from the bowels of that branch of our government, even if it comes from state levels.
As a student of sociology in my college years, I think I generated an early mistrust of psychology and for good reason. Humans and the way in which they act and think are generally guided by the society in which they live. This is called learned behavior. Since psychologists don’t believe this, from my way of thinking their work is no more than high-cost hocus-pocus and of little or no social value.
A few years back, while working as a news reporter on a county government beat, I started uncovering some very dark issues regarding the state-financed mental health department. My probing went all the way to state levels with the help of a friend that worked for the state.
I got close to something sinister. There was a strange telephone call in the night that brought a warning. That very week, the editor of the daily newspaper I worked for ordered me off the mental health story that I had been covering heavily. Even though editors came and went after that, as long as I worked on that newspaper, I was never allowed to write another story about mental health and the things going on under everybody's nose. There was a gross misappropriation of tax dollars occurring when I last looked at that mess. Nothing makes me think anything has changed.
Before I was stopped, my stories began exposing declared psychologists, without any real training or credentials, who were highly paid for “treating” people.
I found that the program mostly was an expensive tax-supported cover-up for a shut down of state mental institutions and the release the feeble minded to private homes in various communities. The staff of reportedly “trained” psychologists and social workers turned out to be no more than a glorified baby-sitting operation, complete with poorly run private homes where the “clients” slept at night, institutionalized day-care programs where the “clients” were supervised by day, and an elaborate busing program that shuttled the inmates back and forth.
We no longer called the feeble minded, idiots and mongoloids what they were. They now were all “mentally handicapped” clients of the local mental health program.
The thought of having untrained and government-paid staff like this turned loose on the mind-set of the nation is frightening. There is a potential here for social control of an extreme that rivals Orwell’s dark dreams from the novel “1984.”
By James Donahue
With so many public shootings occurring there is a lot of talk in Washington about gun control. Also the subject of mental health screening has been batted around once again.
A form of public metal health screening called Teenscreen was tried by the Bush Administration. It was quickly found to be a failed and fraudulant program and was shut down in 2012. Too many young people were improperly classified as suffering from some form of mental illness. But the concept remains implanted in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and thus the blueprint exists for mass mental health screening to rear its ugly head once again.
The reasoning might be that screening like this would expose the would-be terrorists lurking among us. After all, they would think, anyone who would shoot up a crowded theater or blow themselves up in a crowded public building, bus or on an open street must be nuts.
What a national screening like that might do (as occurred with Teenscreen) is put a government computerized peg on the heads of a lot of innocent people who fail to fit within a mold of social conformity. Thus the brilliant minds, the people who would rather take a quiet walk in the woods than attended a crowded and nonsensical football game, and the various social misfits that seek their own path rather than pray to Jesus, could be singled out as enemies of the state.
This is a frightening thought. I find myself fitting in the role of the social non-conformist. But it does not necessarily make me mentally ill. It merely means I choose my own path for my life.
The whole concept of government sponsored mental health has been a scam on the American public for years. We would all do well to not trust anything generated from the bowels of that branch of our government, even if it comes from state levels.
As a student of sociology in my college years, I think I generated an early mistrust of psychology and for good reason. Humans and the way in which they act and think are generally guided by the society in which they live. This is called learned behavior. Since psychologists don’t believe this, from my way of thinking their work is no more than high-cost hocus-pocus and of little or no social value.
A few years back, while working as a news reporter on a county government beat, I started uncovering some very dark issues regarding the state-financed mental health department. My probing went all the way to state levels with the help of a friend that worked for the state.
I got close to something sinister. There was a strange telephone call in the night that brought a warning. That very week, the editor of the daily newspaper I worked for ordered me off the mental health story that I had been covering heavily. Even though editors came and went after that, as long as I worked on that newspaper, I was never allowed to write another story about mental health and the things going on under everybody's nose. There was a gross misappropriation of tax dollars occurring when I last looked at that mess. Nothing makes me think anything has changed.
Before I was stopped, my stories began exposing declared psychologists, without any real training or credentials, who were highly paid for “treating” people.
I found that the program mostly was an expensive tax-supported cover-up for a shut down of state mental institutions and the release the feeble minded to private homes in various communities. The staff of reportedly “trained” psychologists and social workers turned out to be no more than a glorified baby-sitting operation, complete with poorly run private homes where the “clients” slept at night, institutionalized day-care programs where the “clients” were supervised by day, and an elaborate busing program that shuttled the inmates back and forth.
We no longer called the feeble minded, idiots and mongoloids what they were. They now were all “mentally handicapped” clients of the local mental health program.
The thought of having untrained and government-paid staff like this turned loose on the mind-set of the nation is frightening. There is a potential here for social control of an extreme that rivals Orwell’s dark dreams from the novel “1984.”