Mental health

Mental health is important. How it is implemented can be a problem. Let's talk about that.

Richard Hanania, having lost faith in public education where it touches history, also cannot trust how mental health is targeted toward children, adolescents, and young adults. He asserts, “Mental health” is a bigger con than Critical Race Theory, and much more destructive.

Interesting Hanania chose now to say it, in view of Elisa Jácome (pdf; passed by Robet Wiblin through to the HBDChick). Medicaid's mental-health system keeps young men out of prison. To me, that means it "works". As administered through Medicaid, anyway; which is a state-level system.

Hanania's "con" tweet follows in the CRT matrix, however. This implies mental-health as administered through the school system. This is county-driven, not state-. Such mental-health programmes as contribute to the skyrocketing percentages of youth identifying as "LGBT", where we can focus on B and T, are no more or less than grooming programmes. Some parents are brave enough to say as much.

On the other hand: there is much good that a sensitive counselor can do, not least to stop the slide before it hits bottom. Inasmuch as that's his/her job, yeah: no substitute for an actual, you know, friend. But we can consider that the triage stage. Then you get to other options: is this kid really a proto-schizophrenic, or is he having other problems like (foremost) bullies.

To sum up, the solution to most "mental health" is to remove the unhappy children from their county-jails entirely. Although some of it remains real and requires treatment.