Erase TeenScreen

My letter To Gov. Pawlenty

2007-05-26T10:23:00.000-07:00

Dear Governor Pawlenty,
I am writing to ask you to line-item-veto the Safe Schools Levy tucked into HF 2245.

At first, this item was a bill named TeenScreen, but due to much controversy, it was then changed to "mental health screening" and now, after more controversy, it's called "suicide prevention tools".

Sir, the origins of Teen Screen come directly from Psychiatry as it is registered as a "Diagnostic Psychiatric Service".

That said, the sole basis for Psychiatry's ability to diagnose suicide comes from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Appallingly, The DSM IV, Psychiatry's most current issue, has absolutely no information, diagnostics or statistics on "Suicide".

It is not even in their index.

It is not in their alphabetical list of disorders as a "disorder".

Additionally, the profession of Psychiatry itself has had a runaway epidemic of suicides for decades - and only getting worse - amongst its own practitioners -which demonstrates they

1. do not know how to treat suicide amongst themselves

2. have no research, diagnostic findings or real knowledge of how to prevent suicide in anyone else.

and

3.To add to this problem, psychiatry has teamed up with large pharmaceutical companies who have been manufacturing drugs that now have to carry Black Box Warnings that they CAUSE suicide - and these are the drugs that will eventually be prescribed to those teens who come off the survey - including those with the screen's outrageously high percentage of false positives.

The current Teen Screen survey is a set of subjective questions that could not differentiate a normal teen from one who might commit suicide - and has consequently a higher percentage of false positive results.

And, although its initial goal was to find the potential suicide case, it is not finding suicide potentials but kids with anything from ADHD - NOT listed as suicidal in the DSM - to "Social Anxiety Disorder - NOT suicidal but able to be prescribed drugs for by being listed in the DSM!

These are what are coming off the survey, the NON suicidal "disorders" listed in the DSM that can then have drugs prescribed against the labels.

Hence, although Teen Screen claims it, itself, "does no diagnosing", they are by origin, a "Diagnostic psychiatric service" and are simply "laundering" the process of labeling kids with DSM disorders, not suicidal disorders as there is no such thing in their system - so that billions can be made in profit off the subjective results from a generalized survey.

Before Psychiatry attempts to salvage suicides in children (and kill many of them with psychotropic drugs), it should be able to eliminate suicide in its own profession as an example.

It should have a knowledge and understanding of the causes of suicide that have borne results in preventing it - rather than currently

NO such knowledge,

NO results

and drugs that CAUSE suicide!

This is dangerous, incompetent and unworkable in the extreme. - and should be the subject of a government inquiry - not allowed to infect the health and well being of our children and adolescents.

Please Line-Item-Veto the so-called Safe Schools Levy in HF 2245 and in so doing, keep our schools truly safe!

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
Sincerely

J S Via

Great Insights From the DSM IV Introduction

2007-04-22T21:26:00.000-07:00

From the DSM IV Introduction:

"Moreover, although this manual provides a classification of mental disorders, it must be admitted that no definition adequately specifies precise boundaries for the concept of "mental disorder"...

"In DSM IV, there is no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries dividing it from other mental disorders. - or from no mental disorder."

"New knowledge generated by research or clinical experience will undoubtedly lead to an increased understanding of the disorders included in DSM IV, to the identification of new disorders - and to the removal of some disorders in future classifications."

Ie 'all those drugs you were taking for "blahblah disorder"? Well it's no longer a disorder! - you can stop taking the drugs now, they weren't actually necessary or doing anything for anything after all! - but better yet, keep on taking them while we find some other disorder to fill its place - always subject to recall, mind you!'

DSM IV - The "NO LABORATORY FINDINGS" Chant!

2007-04-22T00:34:00.000-07:00

Take it from the top!
Pg 43 Mental Retardation:

"Other than the results of psychological and adaptive behavioral tests that are necessary for the diagnosis of Mental Retardation, THERE ARE NO LABORATORY FINDINGS that are uniquely associated with Mental Retardation."

Pg 81 Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder:

"THERE ARE NO LABORATORY TESTS that have been established as diagnostic in the clnical assessment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ... There are no specific physical features associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder..."

Pg 88 Conduct Disorder:

"In some studies, lower heart rate and lower skin conductance have been noted in individuals with Conduct Disorder. However, levels of physiological arousal are NOT DIAGNOSTIC OF THE DISORDER."

Pg 280 Schizophrenia:

"NO LABORATORY FINDINGS have been identified that are diagnostic of Schizophrenia."

Pg 323 Major Depressive Episode:

"NO LABORATORY FINDINGS that are diagnostic of a Major Depressive Episode have been identified."

Pg 330 Manic Episode:

"NO LABORATORY FINDINGS that are diagnostic of a Manic Episode have been identified>"

pg 352 Mood Disorders:

"There appear to be NO LABORATORY FEATURES that distinguish Major Depressive Episodes found in Major Depressive Disorder from those in Bipolar I Disorder."

Pg 360 Mood Disorders:

"There appear to be NO LABORATORY FEATURES that distinguish Major Depressive Episodes found in Major Depressive Disorder from those in Bipolar II Disorder."

Pg 398 Panic Disorder:

"NO LABORATORY FINDINGS have been identified that are diagnostic of Panic Disorder."

Pg 413 Social Phobia:

"This finding supports the differentiation of Social Phobia from Panic Disorder, although NONE OF THESE FINDINGS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE DIAGNOSTIC OF THESE DISORDERS."

Pg 419 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:

"NO LABORATORY FINDINGS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED that are diagnostic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder."

Pg 447 Somatization Disorder (Somatic complaints - ie "Doc, I been gettin' these pains lately..")

"LABORATORY TEST RESULTS ARE REMARKABLE FOR THE ABSENCE OF FINDINGS TO SUPPORT THE SUBJECTIVE COMPLAINTS."

Pg 455 Conversion Disorder (psychosomatic paralysis):

"NO SPECIFIC LABORATORY ABNORMALITIES are associated with Conversion Disorder."

Pg 464 Hypochondriasis:

"LABORATORY FINDINGS DO NOT CONFIRM the individual's preoccupation."

Pg 535 Gender Identity Disorder:

"THERE IS NO DIAGNOSTIC TEST specific for Gender Identity Disorder.

HAS ANYONE NOTICED THAT TEEN SCREEN DOES NOT SCREEN FOR SUICIDE?

2007-04-19T21:09:00.000-07:00

What happens when a child takes the TeenScreen survey?

Do they get diagnosed as "suicidal"?

NO!

They get "diagnosed" with one of the nearly 400 "disorders" listed in the DSM IV which has no such "disorder" as "Suicidality"

AND NONE OF THE DISRODERS LISTED ARE SAID TO LEAD TO SUICIDE EXCEPT BIPOLARITY AND MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

But the survey findings - the 84% INCORRECT findings - are more likely to find "social anxiety disorder","conduct disorder", "disruptive behavior disorder" and many more of which NONE have anything to do with suicidality.

But they can be prescribed drugs for and billed.

Suicidality, not being in the DSM IV, cannot be prescribed for or billed.

Hence, it is ONLY a gimmick to get the other DSM IV listings assigned prescribed and billed for.

Screen for suicidality?

Only in the title of the program

Only in its mission statement

From there it goes off MO's (mission orders) and becomes "screening for DSM IV listed disorders" which are almost totally NOT suicidal per the book itself!

Oh well, thought I'd mention it in case it slipped by...

A Closer Look At the FDA's Black Box Warning Enforcement

2007-04-12T18:55:00.000-07:00

Here is the FDA's statement and order to drug companies concerned to start letting their consumers know what they didn't for over 15 years - that the drugs they were taking to prevent suicidal thoughts are CAUSING suicidal thoughts - or worse! :
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(For the complete posting by the FDA go to
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/antidepressants/SSRIlabelChange.htm)

FDA Home Page CDER Home Page CDER Site Info Contact CDER What's New @ CDER
"Labeling Change Request Letter for Antidepressant Medications
NDA XX-XXX
...

[The following language would replace the current language under the WARNINGS-Clinical Worsening and Suicide Risk section.]

WARNINGS-Clinical Worsening and Suicide Risk

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), both adult and pediatric, may experience worsening of their depression and/or the emergence of suicidal ideation and behavior (suicidality) or unusual changes in behavior, whether or not they are taking antidepressant medications, and this risk may persist until significant remission occurs.

There has been a long-standing concern that antidepressants may have a role in inducing worsening of depression and the emergence of suicidality in certain patients.
A causal role for antidepressants in inducing suicidality has been established in pediatric patients.

..."

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

2007-04-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC OR MEDICAL EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR A PSYCHIATRIST TO DIAGNOSE A MENTAL DISORDER - NO BLOOD OR URINE TEST OR BRAIN SCAN.

PSYCHIATRISTS PRESCRIBE MIND-NUMBING DRUGS AND ELECTROSHOCK TO COVER UP THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT IS WRONG WITH A PERSON AND HAVE NO CURES.

THE MORE THAN $100 BILLION SPENT ON PSYCHIATRY EACH YEAR WORLDWIDE IS A WASTE, NOT ONLY FINANCIALLY BUT ALSO IN WASTED AND DAMAGED LIVES.

Pass this on. Post it verbatim on your own blogs. Repeat it regularly on lines where it will be heard and seen!

This has been a Public Service Announcement

AND THIS FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE HIGHEST SUICIDE RATE OF ANY PROFESSION!

2007-04-05T09:01:00.000-07:00

Excerpt:
Why Shrinks Have Problems
By:Robert Epstein, Tim Bower
(From Psychology Today online)
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In this below article, the above authors talk very openly about the complete lack of use of psychiatrists' and psychologists' therapy on themselves and the fact that they often are the one's needing the therapy and their clients get their time wasted by the therapist laying his/her burdens down! (oddly enough such therapists don't use their own psych "tech" - and are resistive to coercion by their colleagues! -but usually take to drinking, meditation etc instead!) - This is an article you might want to fully read as it is 100% admission and exposure of NO TECH OF THE MIND in these fields!
More importantly, though ,is THEIR OWN SUICIDE RATE which the below excerpt covers!
Why are they trying to do anything about suicide prevention - ala Teen Screen - when they have the highest rate of any profession???
The more one LOOKS, the more one finds outlandish and outrageous contradictions of common sense!
It almost hurts it's so blatant!
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"In a 1968 hospital study, psychiatrists reported reacting to patient suicides with feelings of "guilt and self-recrimination." Others considered the suicide to be "a direct act of spite" or said it was like being "fired." Whatever the reaction, the emotional toll is great.Bruno Bettelheim. Paul Federn. Wilhelm Stekel. Victor Tausk. Lawrence Kohlberg. Perhaps you recognize one or two of the names. They're all prominent mental health professionals who, like Freud, committed suicide.

"All too often the stresses of work and everyday life lead mental health professionals down this path. According to psychologist David Lester, Ph.D., director of the Center for the Study of Suicide, mental health professionals kill themselves at an abnormally high rate.
"Indeed, highly publicized reports about the suicide rate of psychiatrists led the American Psychiatric Association to create a Task Force on Suicide Prevention in the late 1970s. A study initiated by that task force, published in 1980, concluded that
"psychiatrists commit suicide at rates about twice those expected [of physicians]"
and that
"the occurrence of suicides by psychiatrists is quite constant year-to-year, indicating a relatively stable over-supply of depressed psychiatrists."
No other medical specialty yielded such a high suicide rate."

Some Info On the Psychotropics Being Coerced Via Teenscreen

2007-04-04T15:10:00.000-07:00

From the website www/popsci.com:

"Michael Kraus
Last fall the FDA ruled that all antidepressants must carry the strongest possible safety warning after a review of tests revealed that the drugs trigger suicidal thoughts in 2 to 3 percent of kids and teens taking them.
The Prozac Paradox: Why Antidepressants May Exacerbate Depression and Anxiety in Some Kids and Teens
By Linda Marsa January 2005

"An estimated 20 million Americans have at one point or another relied on Prozac or one of its chemical siblings, including Paxil and Zoloft, to ease depression or anxiety. For most adults who take them, the drugs, known collectively as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, work as advertised: Mood improves with increased levels of the brain chemical serotonin.

But a growing body of research is confirming long-standing suspicions that SSRIs harbor a dark side.

Instead of easing depression, in some patients they may intensify it and even induce suicidal or violent behavior.

This past October, Columbia University researchers stoked the debate with a study suggesting that exposure to Prozac in the womb and in early childhood may permanently alter the brain’s circuitry and disrupt neural development, leading to serious emotional disorders later in life. Scientists say that the results, published in the journal Science, raise serious concerns about the long-term safety of SSRIs in the estimated 1.75 million children now taking them.

In the experiment, researchers gave Prozac to a group of young mice during a period of brain development that corresponds with the last trimester of pregnancy through eight years of age in humans. Then they conducted a series of tests designed to measure confidence and ability to cope with stress. Compared with normal mice, adult mice given Prozac early in life were less willing to take risks to earn rewards, took longer to escape unpleasant sensations, and were more fearful of new surroundings—all behaviors associated with anxiety and depression in animals.

The underlying mechanism for this paradoxical effect is still unknown, but the investigators suspect that Prozac may impede the flow of naturally occurring serotonin in the brain. In healthy adults, serotonin acts as a chemical messenger that regulates mood by expediting the transmission of nerve impulses from one brain cell to another.

In infants and young children, though, the chemical also spurs the maturation of brain systems in the cerebral cortex and limbic system that govern emotional function. Of course, it’s a big leap from mice to people. But other research indicates that SSRIs may have the same influence on humans.

A study conducted last February at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte compared 17 babies born to mothers who took SSRIs throughout their pregnancy with 17 babies whose mothers didn’t. The newborns exposed to the antidepressants were more likely to have tremors, became agitated more easily, and exhibited unusual sleep patterns—all symptoms of a stressed nervous system.

... [A]s Emory University psychologist and SSRI expert Paul Plotsky points out, there is a distinct possibility that “we may be changing the brain in subtle ways that we still don’t understand.” "

Teen Screen's Point of Origin: Got An Eraser?

2007-04-04T14:34:00.000-07:00

From the Patent Office - where the Teenscreen postulate comes out of "nonbeing" into being.
This is something to consider being erased from the records as the error that it is:

"TEENSCREEN IC 042. US 100 101. G & S providing diagnostic psychiatric service for use in identifying and predicting suicidal tendencies in teenagers.

"First Use: 19900000
"First Use in Commerce: 19900000
"Filing date: Dec 15, 1999
Serial No.: 75873822
"Published for Opposition: August 8, 2000
"Registration No.: 2601876
"Registration Date: July 30, 2002

"Owner: (Registrant) Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York. The NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION New York 412 Low Memorial Library 535 W. 116th St NY, NY 10027"

2007-04-04T07:30:00.000-07:00

ERASE TEEN SCREEN - WHOOPS! SUICIDE NOT ADDRESSED AS A SUBJECT AT ALL IN THE DSM!!

Hello-

And welcome to my ERASE TEEN SCREEN blog!

I checked the appendix for alphabetical listings of all the disorders in the DSM IV and between "Stuttering" and "Tic Disorder" there is

nothing!

I would have thought there would be a "Suicidal Ideation Disorder" or some such.

Nothing!

I checked the index and its last "S" listing is "Substance Use Disorders"

Then it goes on to "T" listings

I guess suicidality itself is not a disorder or mental illness!

I guess if they already have drugs that cause suicidality, they can't exactly list it as anything wrong with a person.

Wonder why they're screening for it??

Or perhaps it's all those other disorders that are in the DSM that can be labelled and disgnosed and drugged (with psychotropics that cause suicide themselves) that lead up to suicide
- except they don't!
For example "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" - Here is where the DSM IV would have a sectyion "Associated Descriptive Features" like it does for, say,Bipolar, which states "Completed suicide occurs in 10%-15% of individulas with Bipolar Disorder"
- no such entry at all anywhere whatsoeverf for Obsessive-Compulsuive" - hence this is not linked to suicide.
Nor are the other common lables derived from the TeenScreen survey and assigned to children..
In fact there have been NO SUCH findings as "suicidal tendency" gotten from the TeenScreeen survey!
BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SURVEYING FOR!
But, of course, in the manner that the DSM IV is reasoning (or not reasoning) suicidality all by itself as a phenomenon aparently is not a malady.
Not a subject unto itself.
Not a Disorder.

Hmmm something just doesn't make sense here ...

THE

DSM

DOES

NOT

ADDRESS

THE SUBJECT

OF

SUICIDE

Well done, DSM, for your detailed study of the subject of Suicide - which Teen Screen depends so much upon to provide "diagnostic psychiatric service for use in identifying and predicting suicidal tendencies in teenagers"!

ave a nice day

2007-04-04T06:06:00.000-07:00

Erase Teen Screen (#1 in a series)

If you really want to get rid of a problem
you must put your FULL attention on it.

THOROUGHLY VIEW it

down to its sources and origins

ENTIRELY.

This will bring about an

"ERASURE" - a disentanglement and dissolution -
of the
PROBLEM
and a return to clarity and sanity.

TeenScreen is a problem of huge proportion as will be covered

Hence

ERASE TEENSCREEN !

(Continued on next blog)
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Why Erase Teen Screen? (#2 in a series of 6)

My reasons for classifying TeenScreen as a problem of HUGE proportions comes directly and firstly from its own statistics from their surveys taken - which have 84% false positive results.
A "false positive result" means they have falsely "found" a child to be "mentally ill" and have then falsely labeled them with a disorder and falsely scheduled them for eventual drug prescriptions.It only takes the other 16% to make their survey 100% FALSE! - but there is plenty of evidence to support its complete 100% falseness.
Here is a true and typical example - in fact 84% typical:
A child was recently given the TeenScreen survey - a set of yes/no type questions which try to fish out possible mental health trouble. One of her questions asked "do you go out often?"
The 12 year old girl answered "no".
She explained later that she has to get sleep on school nights and only occasionally goes out on weekends - a pajama party or dinner at a friend's house. In other words - a very healthy answer behind the "no".
But this came up as reason enough to classify her as having "Social Anxiety Disorder" (a Disorder label listed in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which Teen Screen solely operates off of) and to tell her so - which basically traumatized her by making her think she was mentally ill.
And note the "stigmatization" is coming entirely from the erroneous TeenScreen.
And so it goes for the remaining 84% who will now be coerced into being prescribed a powerful psychotropic drug which can have side effects - including that of
SUICIDE.
Hence 84% of TeenScreen's false results can potentially be MADE to commit suicide!
The irony
But it doesn't clear up as to why TeenScreen is THIS incompetent!

(Find out why on my next blog!)
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What SOURCE Does Teen Screen Draw it's Methodology From? (#3 in a series of 6)

On probing further, we find Teen Screen is drawing all of its methods from a book that freely admits throughout it that it has "no research to prove" the validity of any disorder or mental illness as stemming from a chemical imbalance of the brain.
This includes anything from Schizophrenia to Bipolar to Depression to "Written Expression Disorder" and all in between!
I'm referring to of course, the DSM IV.The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition.
One out of many examples is Page 323 "Associated Laboratory Findings":
"No laboratory findings that are diagnostic of a major depressive episode have been identified"
That said, however, the DSM plows right ahead and FALSELY issues its list of some near 400 bogusly identified "disorders"
- again, as they admitted, based on "no laboratory findings"
- ie they said "oh well, we'll just make them up" !
And if you're asking how DID they pretend to derive these disorders (after making them up)?
- It turns out that a panel meets and brings up a disorder label and they simply VOTE on it!
- and it can be voted right back out later on - as was homosexuality.
After all, there never was any PROOF - just opinion!
Hence what is being labeled and drugged is an OPINION and not a physical disease nor chemical imbalance!
They then classify these fabricated "disorders" (without ANY proof and NO findings) as if they were chemical imbalances - all without tests, proof, research , NOTHING! - and simply hope nobody asks.
Or more to the point, they hope everyone will take the lie and run with it!
But, by being printed in this thick daunting reference book, they are now "official" and, most importantly, legal for psychotropic drugs to be prescribed.
This is out-in-the-open Orwellian double talk!
But who reads the DSM?

(Find out who actually READS the DSM in the next blog!)
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Who Reads The DSM? (#4 in a series of 6)

Not enough of you or me!
And so no one gives a thorough enough viewing of this problem to make its painful consequences erase.
What would happen if every man and woman on the street picked up a copy of the DSM and scrutinized it??
Well, you say, it's a BIG daunting scholarly type "reference book" - dull, hard to keep up interest, hard to comprehend, convoluted with jargon, and it's meant for certain professions to read only. -
And this is a book after all about insanities! I might wig out if I read it!
Well, if you're thinking any of that
please get OVER yourself!
It's like thinking there's a monster in the box and then opening it to find Mutt and Jeff at their goofiest!
But those are a few of the reasons the DSM passes right by with total scam "officialdom" and nobody catches it.
Don't feel like the only one who missed it!
Physicians and members of the medical profession have missed it
Every time a "Mental Health Mandate" bill goes before a local or national Senate and House to be voted on
These Senates and Houses will not have studied the DSM IV to base their voting integrity
And yet the DSM is so "official" that laws are in the process of legislation to make it MANDATORY to have drugs prescribed out of the book and forced on children and adults!
The truth is the DSM is a book that screams with its own contradiction of its validity - its own out- loud admission that it is entirely false!
But who's listening?
Who's reading?
Who's copying along with their own mind with understanding (a process called duplicating)?
Not the senators or congresspeople who have to vote on "Mandated Mental Health" legislation.

They should - shouldn't they? - to honestly be abreast of what they're passing into law?
But they don't!

And that is why ...
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And That Is Why (#5 in a series of 6)

And that's why this bogus but extremely destructive purpose gets forwarded over everyone's heads.
That is why there is a Frankenstein monster gone runaway and rampant in overdrugging, overdiagnosing, overdosing and over-killing people of all walks!
Nobody is LOOKING -LITERALLY!
Well too many schools have been shot up by children who had "therapeutic doses" of a psych drug in their veins - and who were diagnosed as having been driven to their horrifying acts BY those drugs.
Too many children have committed suicide AFTER being put on psychiatric drugs - and as a direct result OF those drugs
-prescribed from a book that ADMITS - after Billions for research -
"no research has proven" that the disorders are from a chemical imbalance in the brain.
"No tests exist to determine such chemical imbalance"
Well they are being quite honest and telling us loud and clear :
"WE ARE BOGUS QUACKS
WE ARE CREATING PSYCHOTIC MURDERERS OUT OF YOUR CHILDREN
WE ARE CAUSING SUICIDE WHILE PRETENDING TO PREVENT IT WITH TEEN SCREEN AND PSYCHOTROPIC PHARMACEUTICALS AS A SURE FOLLOW UP
WE WANT EVERY HUMAN BEING ON EARTH DRUGGED FROM WOMB TO TOMB UNDER ENTIRELY FALSE PRETENSES"
But who's paying close enough attention?
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CONCLUSION (#6 in a series of 6)

The cat's asleep while the sewer rats are infesting the once clean happy house!
It's our own fault if this truly silly and highly ignorant plan continues to contaminate population Earth by disguising its secret weapon as a thick book that is thought to be "too scholarly for you to understand".
Don't take this nonsense any more
start LOOKING

start ASKING QUESTIONS.

DEMAND TRUTH
It's really OUR fault if we let this cowardly criminal bunch turn loose a fascism of drugging, death and false labelling as "mentally ill" all humanity.
Are we THAT ASLEEP?
We need only
LOOK
to
ERASE TEENSCREEN!

What IS Erasure?

2007-03-19T11:15:00.000-07:00

The following quote gives a description which covers what erasure is. (bold italics mine)

"... The higher an individual up the [emotional] Tone Scale [a person] is, the more capable he is of reducing and erasing incidents ... He just happens to think of a certain concept and bow!—that whole incident just blows... Until all the undesirable incidents will just blow, blow, blow, blow, blow."
— L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture "Time", delivered on 23 June 1952. This quote can be found on page 598 in R&D Volume 10.

A Closer Look At Teen Screen

2007-03-18T16:51:00.002-07:00

Reference www.psychsearch.net "Teenscreen"

TeenScreen is a very controversial so-called "diagnostic psychiatric service", aka suicide survey; done on children who are then referred to psychiatric treatment.

The evidence suggests that the objective of the psychiatrists who designed TeenScreen is to place children so selected on psychotropic drugs.
"It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs," said Marcia Angell, a medical ethics lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Truth About Drug Companies." She said such programs will boost the sale of antidepressants even after the FDA in September ordered a "black box" label warning that the pills might spur suicidal thoughts or actions in minors. (The New York Post, December 5, 2004)
TeenScreen is based on the thoroughly discredited "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders".

Procedure on Young Children:
Step OneTeenScreen lures kids as young as 9 years old into doing the suicide survey by offering them free movie passes, food coupons, "I completed TeenScreen" stress balls, pizza parties and candy bars - if they consent to the procedure.One tactic TeenScreen officials use is to sell the child on the suicide survey first and after they have the child's agreement, they later contact parents. TeenScreen Project Coordinator, Kathleen Cigich, was quoted as saying: "We found early on, though, that sending out letters directly to parents is prohibitively time consuming and gets a low response rate. We thought, why not go to students themselves and offer a $5 video store coupon to anyone who brings back a parental consent form within a two-day turnaround period. It works. Our response rate is extremely high."TeenScreen also utilizes a "passive consent" form which requires no written parental approval. The passive consent form is sent home to parents and if they don't return it TeenScreen considers that the parents approve. TeenScreen officials favor passive consent because they say it boosts their chances of screening kids to 95% as opposed to the written parental consent technique. What if the child forgets to bring the consent form home? What happens if the parent is too busy to refuse in writing? They've consented in the eyes of TeenScreen personnel.
Step Two
The youngster is sat down and asked introverting questions such as:

Has there been a time when nothing was fun for you and you just weren't interested in anything?
Has there been a time when you felt you couldn't do anything well or that you weren't as good-looking or as smart as other people?
How often did your parents get annoyed or upset with you because of the way you were feeling or acting?
Have you often felt very nervous when you've had to do things in front of people?
Have you often worried a lot before you were going to play a sport or game or do some other activity?
Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year?
Are you still thinking of killing yourself?
Have you thought seriously about killing yourself?
Have you often thought about killing yourself??
Have you ever tried to kill yourself?
Step Three
Based on the answers the child gives to the above questions he is then shuffled off to a "clinician", who ponders the bogus label to use. Social Phobia? Panic Disorder? Anxiety? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?Active Suicide Ideation?Passive Suicide Ideation?You can find the checklist used to label the child here: labeling checklist
IMPORTANT NOTE TO PARENTS:
Parents are being mislead by a multi billion-dollar a year child drugging industry that a diagnoses of "mental disorder" (ADHD, Bi-Polar, Social Anxiety Disorder) are medical diseases or illnesses. This is a fraud. No child has a brain scan, blood test, X-Ray or any evidence of physical abnormality to verify they are "ill" or "diseased." Yet psychiatrists continue to pound the public with misleading and fraudulent statements that these so called mental disorders are biochemical or neurological conditions. That is false. They are simply a list of behaviors that psychiatrists vote into existence and insert into their billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.This has led to over 8 million children in the U.S. taking mind-altering psychiatric drugs.The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV), published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), is psychiatry's billing bible of "disorders" from which psychiatric screening, diagnoses and their treatment are derived. The current edition lists 374 psychiatric conditions that have been identified as mental disorders.Yet, the disorders contained in the DSM-IV are arrived at by consensus, not by scientific criteria. There are no blood tests, brain scans, X-Rays, MRIs or "chemical imbalance" tests that can scientifically validate any mental "disorder" as a disease or illness. Canadian psychologist Tana Dineen reports, "Unlike medical diagnoses that convey a probable cause, appropriate treatment and likely prognosis, the disorders listed in DSM-IV are terms arrived at through peer consensus"- literally, a vote by APA committee members.
Step Four
The "clinician" summarizes his report and comes up with an "impairment score".
Step Five
Based on how the child answered the "suicide survey", and which label the clinician conjured up and how the child did on his "impairment score" the child is then sent off for "treatment".What treatment?
Drugs.
A survey of recently trained child psychiatrists found the treatment for 9 out of 10 children consisted of drugging. (Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry 2002)The "treatment" used on children with these bogus labels can be found here: Medication Guidelines"Treatment" is the long term goal for TeenScreen according to their director, Laurie Flynn.What does the Food and Drug Administration say about these drugs? See here: Black Box Warning