By Allen Jones, Former Investigator, Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General
As human beings we have a strong natural impulse to protect our kids from harm. As a society we create norms, laws and institutions to protect, educate and nurture our young. Consciously and instinctively we safeguard our children.
Teen Screen is a bitter and cynical betrayal of this noble human impulse. Promoted as an aid to preventing suicide and identifying so-called mental disorders, Teen Screen is in fact a nefarious effort to recruit our children into the quagmire of biological psychiatry.
I believe the majority of parents who support Teen Screen are well meaning and genuinely have the best interests of children at heart. I believe they have been duped and beguiled by slick marketing that appealed to their better instincts while simultaneously defeating those instincts.
Teen Screen was developed and promoted by persons with deep financial ties to makers of psychiatric drugs. These drug companies have a profit-driven incentive to maximize the use of their drugs. Teen Screen furthers this corporate goal by following a psychiatric model intended to translate normal human experience into symptoms of mental illness.
Teen Screen’s centerpiece is a survey which claims to identify signs of mental illness and suicidality in children and adolescents. How does it do this? Teen Screen identifies feelings and emotions experienced by children and adolescents. It then translates these feelings and emotions into “symptoms” of mental illness. In this way, Teen Screen is in lock-step with modern psychiatry.
The field of psychiatry has attached clinical pathology to the presence or absence of literally every mood or feeling in the normal range of human emotions. The diagnostic criteria outlined in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) essentially identify the presence or absence of feelings and subjectively determine if these feelings are “normal” or “abnormal.” If the feeling or emotion is considered inappropriate in intensity or context, that feeling becomes a “symptom” of “mental illness,” treatable by medication. After all, psychiatric drugs are designed to treat “symptoms” not cure illness.
Any child who lives life fully and freely will experience a full range of human emotions. They will experience sadness, gladness, apathy, energy, optimism, pessimism, fear, fearlessness, love, hate, suspicion, trust and myriad other feelings. Experiencing these feelings and learning to be guided appropriately by them is a vital part of growth and maturation. Teen Screen identifies these feelings, subtlety manipulates or ignores context and labels the feelings as possible “symptoms” of mental illness.
Imagine the emotional states experienced by a child before, during and after a major life event such as playing in the “Big Game” with an archrival school. The child might be distracted by excited anticipation for days before the event. He might have difficulty sleeping the night before the game. He might be unable to think of anything else on game day, even during classes. He will likely be very highly energized during the event. Depending on the game outcome, the child might be elated or saddened for days afterwards.
Now imagine the child later being asked questions such as these:
Have you ever felt so full of energy that it was difficult to sit still?
Have you ever felt anxious when you had to say or do something in front of people?
Have you ever been so concerned about something that you could not sleep?
Have you ever felt so happy that you could not concentrate?
Have you ever felt so sad that you could not focus on your school work?
The participant in the big game and the spectators of the big game might answer “yes” to most or all of the above questions. Following the creed of modern psychiatry, Teen Screen would determine the child to be at risk of mania, social anxiety disorder, depression and possibly bipolar disorder. The child would be flagged for further psychiatric evaluation.
The above scenario is not far-fetched. Things like this are happening every day. Teen Screen has been proven to have “false positive” rates as high as 84%.
Teen Screen is a device to distill “symptoms” from normal life experience and generate unlimited referrals to mental health professionals whose primary method of treatment involves drugging. Please do not be duped by this ferocious, Pharma-friendly wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Allen Jones, worked as an investigator in the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and gained widespread national and international attention as a whistleblower after uncovering pharmaceutical industry payments to government officials for the purpose of implementing a national mental health screening/psychotropic drug treatment plan based on the controversial Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). In May, 2004 the British Medical Journal reported Jones had uncovered evidence major drug companies sought to influence government officials and that Jones was escorted out of his workplace on April 28, 2004, after OIG officials accused him of talking to the press. Jones chose to disclose his findings to the press precisely because of corrupt behavior by OIG officials themselves, alleging the OIG’s policy was “unconstitutional.”
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As a child grows into a mature person the pieces of life that he grasps with his hand and grocs with his mind become experience. And after a while that experience reaches out and takes measure of the world, so that things are understood partly by the shorthand of what is known. Eventually enough is winnowed so that truth begins to glimmer and wisdom beckons. But when that interchange between person and world is violated by the brutality of imposed thought, a confusion results that can deny all certainty and knowledge. This is the first crime of Psychiatry, especially as entered into education. But to heap upon this insult the chemical confusion of pharmaceutical drugs that steal in their turn the clarity of recognition and the peace of knowing is a travesty beyond imagination. This is Psychiatry’s second crime. But the third one worse still is that the world then sees insanity in its members and so can be persuaded that it is a truth. Love your children, don’t drug them.
I was tortured in the foster care system for eight years of my life not only by medication but physically and emotionaly. I was starved; I was put through child labor abuse. No attorney will take a case for me. I have been off of medication for 5 years since I ran away when I was fifteen and on my own. Now I can get the education I was deprived of as a child. I am twenty years old now and go to college for my associates and paralegal certificate. My research will continue until the lives and dignity of all children are returned.
I have two nephews who were put psychiatric drugs as a result of this testing. Both were normal boys. One came close to dying before he was taken off the drugs. This Teen Screen is a dangerous affair.
I thought this video was very informative. I don’t honestly want to get involved in these issues myself…It’s a mind field of information to digest and the personal sacrafice required is great….but I do wish the CCHR and all concerned my deep respect and luck to all to stop this madness…
James.
Seek the truth; street and pharamacetical drugs do not seek truth. They retard a person, and do damage to physical apprearance. Closer to Love. Song of hope. God Bless.
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In my practice I see children all the time that are put on these medications. From what they say it doesn’t help them. I’ve had patients tell me they wanted to kill themselves on these medications. I’ve had patients tell me they were hallucinating, they felt numb and had no emotions. Blows my mind children and adults are now placed so quicly this “medications.”
Hail CCHR, for their good works. Live in Scotland – forced medicated. Only informed consent I received were four nurses of those one administered the drug, while the rest gave clear instruction, refuse and we shall be violent.
Drug, injection depot, then maladministered to create a chemical shock, believe known on the wards as a “brain wash, heavy dose that I did feel run up through the jugular & wash over most of my brain.
Now have permanent brain damage. Fled the UK, until section order, order of enslavement dropped off. Now just keep counting the years until the politicians wake up and understand they did wrong.
2004-2009… and med free. A way exists. Mind over matter. Human beings not clinical beings, Do animals understand veto? Psychiatry cannot.
Attains your brain’s tools, now discover how they interact within your mind & self degree until the mentalis confusio mere memory.
Hominization of the species, development of man for money, the ignorance of psychiatry, their fixation of the brain & chemical, just keeps on making a killing. Say no to psychiatric drugging machine & prevent the slaughter of old & young & the pre-born.
The first comments by Robinhood on this page are so beautiful that I want to make a poster of them and go around pasting them to walls all over every city in this nation. I must say, that no matter what else, I have the deepest sincere gratitude for the tremendous effort that this organization is putting forth in the world to stand up to an atrocity that, for some strange reason, no one else will touch. Why can’t people see history repeating itself – the ugliest of human nature running amok in modern times? I don’t understand the silence. Props to all of you for doing what you do, NO MATTER WHAT ELSE
A couple of thousand reasons not to do drugs. Suicide, School shooting and the list goes on and on. There are over 2,500 cases of problems associated with drugs.
http://www.ssristories.com/index.php
Teen Screen Truth
http://www.teenscreentruth.com/psychiatry_drugs_suicide.html
I took the test and I failed as well. I even got a bunch of my friends to take and they failed as well. The test is bogus as anything I have ever seen.
Read the first post, all true unless a child grows up within a vale of lies. How many of us are given a chance in this day and age, to allow those natural developments take place. Too many
choked from the deceit of pure academic living that refuses accept foundational systems of mental wealth necessary prior any building set on the land: brain, mind, soul and a thinker.
Why this survey method known as Teen Screen, is failure, prevents thinking.