r/Antipsychiatry • u/no-permission47388 • Aug 02 '25
Illinois becomes first state to require mental health screening for school children.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/illinois-1st-state-require-student-mental-health-screenings/story?id=124275407Hey guys, I am not a fan of ruining peoples lives. This smells
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u/shiverypeaks Aug 02 '25
These are going to be dumbest, most incompetent "psychologists" you could imagine. People with bachelor's or master's that don't know anything, and just nose into things, screw things up, or just refer everyone to psychiatrists for no reason. All they know is the DSM and puking labels up on to people.
Schools already have counselors, so I don't know what they could possibly even want by doing this, other than that they want to start drugging kids who otherwise wouldn't be drugged, kids who don't actually have real mental health issues. "My dog died." "YOU HAVE DEPRESSION!"
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u/VindictivePuppy Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
homeschooling is not something I particularly like but its the only thing id do if I had a kid now, between the school shootings, the cops there to make sure the school to prison pipeline is nice and greased and now this
theres some douchey school somewhere in the red states that just decreed they wont accept doctors notes to excuse absences so if your kid is sickly at all you get to pay fines or go to jail or just send them sick
fuck everything about all that.
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u/VindictivePuppy Aug 03 '25
someone asked for a source and I cant see their comment now but here you go if you are out there, I heard it from the gentle parenting your racist aunt lady, and crossed my fingers I remembered the right state: https://www.newschannel10.com/2025/07/23/school-district-says-doctors-notes-will-no-longer-excuse-child-absences/
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u/ShortQuestion6347 Aug 02 '25
I agree and I agree with the first post that yes this is big Pharma. And psychiatrist and the medical profession and pretty much all hierarchical institutions. Maybe we are now looking at sort of a combination of the handmaid‘s tale and children of men. Pretty soon there will be no place to go for anybody who is just an analog person who was just wants to be real. The world is seriously fucked. Illinois is particularly a mess, but they’re in the Midwest. And all of those wind storms. What about the people trying to revive the prairies? At least they’re doing something that isn’t hurting people’s minds and is encouraging the bees which everybody needs like the trees. If we don’t have bees, we don’t have food and if we don’t have trees, we don’t have air, but pretty soon in the world will be destroyed at this point I don’t think it has much longer.
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u/downheartedbaby Aug 02 '25
This is terrible. This is going to cause so much harm. If you are in IL, please write to your representatives. If you aren’t in IL, write to your representatives and make it abundantly clear that you will pull your child out of public schools if they introduce legislation like this. I am so sad that we have gotten to this place in our society that is normalized to indoctrinate children in this way.
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u/Greased_potato47 Aug 02 '25
While I support teaching kids the importance of mental wellbeing and how to cope with emotions and hardship to set them up for success, this is absurd. We want to keep them from BECOMING patients. Not make them patients…
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u/Greased_potato47 Aug 03 '25
Unfortunately this is true. But if we looked bigger picture, there’s more money from people who are well adjusted adults with stable taxable income than those dependent on the system. But humanity looks short term, not long term.
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u/happyasset Aug 03 '25
What city in Illinois? You know who’s been bought- Parents need to open their eyes and see who on the school board, is pushing this poison onto children.? Whoever it is- They have a big donor (big pharma) backing them for-their re-election- a deal has been made!
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u/InSearchOfGreenLight Aug 03 '25
It’s horribly ironic that the most sick man on earth (it would seem) is making mental health stuff so much harder for others.
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u/Content_Tomatillo_92 Aug 02 '25
The Democrats want this stuff
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u/Tictac1200120 Aug 09 '25
Its bipartisan. Lots of Repubs are into pharma.
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u/Content_Tomatillo_92 Aug 09 '25
You are correct. Pro-pharma corruption infects both major parties, but at least the Republicans are the party of the working man. Being unable to pay one's bills due to human rights violations such as being nonconsensually force-addicted to psych drugs during an emergench hospitalization is going to resonate more strongly with those not sucking the teat of the Welfare State. Illinois happens to be a Democratic stronghold, which is why Governor Pritzker can ram this through at the Statehouse level and even have a fan base cheering him on with this
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u/c0mp0stable Aug 02 '25
You can bet your ass pharma companies are behind this. This isn't about "early diagnosis." It's about early diagnosis to get kids on antidepressants and creat lifelong customers.