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Article #26: Teen Screen - Creating A Nation Of Victims

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It is unpopular with parents. It is being being promiscuous, even trying drugs.
picketed. There is a petition against it. These things add up to lowered self
It is called Teen Screen. Its intention esteem, stress, and depression but in
is to screen every American teenager for today's world are never addressed. Taking
mental illness. a pill will not cure one's causation,
Teen Screen underlies the scheme to responsibility or lack of it. Medicating
screen every American of any age for our youth can only further lower their
mental illness. It has its horrors, for causation.
the result of the screening is most often Teen Screen addresses feelings and
a prescription for mind-altering attitudes, not the causative factor of
psychiatric drugs. the individual. Worse, it puts forward an
But a new horror surfaces. Teen Screen "excuse" for failure and unhappiness.
and its counterparts are signs of our Today's ads on television communicate
country moving from cause to effect. "take this pill to be happy." Kids are
"Cause" would mean creating life, liberty "told" they are the chemical responses in
and the pursuit of happiness by positive their brains and if they just take a
thought and action. In other words, you drug, they will be happy and do well.
make things happen. "Effect" would be This is a lie! We all know it. Our
having others create and control your country was built on causation, on people
life for you, with little liberty or rising above their ailments, their
happiness. In other words, things happen feelings, their inadequacies because they
to you, you don't make them happen. had a dream, because they believed in
Let us go back a century and look at something. They were busy creating a
Abraham Lincoln. He was poor and better tomorrow, a better life for
underprivileged; had to walk miles to themselves and their offspring.
school. Check your history books. They Counseling, before the advent of
wrote often about his "melancholy." Look psychiatry, was done mainly through
at his sad face. His ambitions and churches. Ministers often directed
incredible desire to learn might have individuals to look at their lives, what
also earned the title of they were doing that was wrong in some
"obsessive-compulsive personality." fashion and change it. Prayer, repentance
Certainly Lincoln would have been labeled and penance were some of their methods.
"depressed" by modern day psychiatrists These methods worked by addressing the
and given antidepressants or other causation of the individual.
mind-altering drugs. Teen Screen asks "what inadequacy you
Yet there can be no doubt of Lincoln's feel you have?" It further MAKES the teen
leadership; his statesmanship, courage inadequate by sending him or her to a
and ability. He brought a divided nation psychiatrist who prescribes a pill that
through its most trying times and further lowers ability. Drugs lower
delivered the potential of freedom to an perception and ability. Don't believe me
entire race. He was a causative person - read the adverse effects on the labels:
who rose above his surroundings and even decreased sexual interest, feeling sick
his emotions. and anxious, difficulty in remembering,
TeenScreen gets cooperation by the use of confusion, insomnia, indigestion,
a shocking word - suicide. Teens are diarrhea, tremor, and drowsiness.
asked probing, personal questions Furthermore, the FDA Black Box warning
supposedly designed to root out any signs says that antidepressants increase the
of depression. TeenScreen questions don't risk of suicidal thinking and behavior
screen for abilities or causation. They (suicidality) in children and adolescents
are all "effect" questions. "Has there with major depressive disorder (MDD) and
been a time when you felt you couldn't do other psychiatric disorders. No Edison,
anything well or that you weren't as Mendelsohn or Itzhak Perlman - a man
good-looking or as smart as other disabled and crippled with plenty of
people?" "Have you often felt very reasons for failure - will come from
nervous when you've had to do things in those "helped" by psychiatric
front of people?" "How often did your medications.
parents get annoyed or upset with you If I had my way, I would screen kids for
because of the way you were feeling or abilities, for dreams and ambitions. Then
acting?" I would help each one to achieve them.
Could feelings of depression be the You can hardly stop a man who has a dream
result of a teen's own causation? This and works toward it. There are countless
question is never even asked. Yet, as stories in history to make man proud of
anyone who has ever been a teenager or those who achieved wonders despite a poor
raised a teenager can attest, the teenage upbringing or some feeling of inadequacy
years are the years when youth not only or momentary depression.
question authority but often go against The future is vast and just waiting to be
it. They do things that violate the rules filled. Let it be filled by causative
and mores they were taught. With their people who actively create a better
bodies and ideas in flux, they often go civilization. Let's move our kids toward
against their own best judgment - they do cause. The future of Teen Screen and
things just to be popular which don't mandatory health screening of every man,
seem right to them. woman and child is a population
Commonplace is being cruel to a sibling; controlled and made effect by psychiatric
disrespectful to a parent; cheating at drugs.
school, not doing homework, lying, and






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