Mental Health Screening -an Oxymoron?

Mental Health Screening as a term in itself defies reason.

After all, the idea of mental health screening infers psychiatrists and psychologists can  actually identify normal mental health from abnormal mental health.

Moreover, it would lead one to presume psychiatry is a science that was developed using the Scientific Method just like medicine with empirical and measurable evidence.

No, for psychiatry – there is empirical and measurable evidence that it is not founded on any scientific method whatsoever.  In fact, it is often tagged “junk science” by health experts.

Because of this miscarriage of science, mental health screening is actually ruinous to the lives it pretends to help.

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