TeenScreen: Manipulating Normal Children

Teen Screen Makes Children Think That They Are Mentally Ill, when In FACT, they are normal... Look at some of the questions raised during the survey.

Next, the child is given a paper and pencil test over about 10 minutes with highly suggestive and/or meaningless questions like:

• 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?

Normal children answering honestly will endorse at least one of the first 5 questions. That is enough to get them "diagnosed" with one supposed mental health disorder or another.