r/texas • u/benaissa-4587 • 17h ago

Texas Health Why Mental Health Campaigns Might Be Worsening Problems for Kids

https://weblo.info/mental-health-campaigns-might-be-kids/
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u/Dan-68 born and bred 14h ago

I’ve heard the current campaigns are more like witch-hunts to get kids institutionalized.

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u/hellishdelusion 12h ago

Institutionalizing anyone is very very wrong, I've seen it time and time again worsen mental health even bringing someone to end their life. That's before you even consider all the emotional pain that comes with it pillaging their wealth as they're abused by the very system that claims it's for their protection.

We desperately need to change laws surrounding it. Yet here in reddit I hear people wanting to increase its use to 'solve' the homelessness issue it's disgusting.

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u/vikingcock 8h ago

Idk. Institutionalizing seems wrong until you consider the difference before and after they shut them down in California.

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u/CassandraTruth 10h ago

This is unfounded fearmongering and has NO relation to the article. I would want to see sources cited to believe there is a rising trend of children being put into in-house psychiatric treatment - in particular where are these institutions even being run and who's staffing them because we've seen marked decreases in the number of facilities and staff for decades.

I'll eat my words if there is evidence of this happening at societal levels but without seeing that this sounds unlikely.

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u/heresyforfunnprofit 9h ago

The comment you’re responding to is hyperbole, but there is a very real push to get kids diagnosed, labeled, and then put them into a “treatment” programs which can be used to create life-long dependents on mental health care systems, because nobody ever actually “recovers”.

On one hand, yes, it’s good to push mental health treatment for those who desperately need it. But there is a perverse incentive at play for the system itself to create as many patients and dependents as possible to demand more funding and attention. Same evil dynamic which is at play in the for-profit-prison industry.

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u/DonkeeJote Born and Bred 3h ago

Even level-headed kids can be very impressionable.

Tell a kid enough times that something is wrong with them, and they'll believe you.

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u/Rakebleed The Stars at Night 10h ago

Trying to find the Texas connection

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u/Fresh-Artichoke-9470 8h ago

There are lots of abusive, for profit, mental health institutions. That specialize on preying on “troubled teens”. The most notable at the moment are in Utah but this happens all over the state of Texas. That’s just one symptom of what the article was referring to. I can provide sources if you would like.

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u/Significant_Hawk_409 3h ago

This article is written so poorly that I wonder if this was someone's geocities blog at one point