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