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Suicide prevention week, Just like the teenscreen scam

Postby Copy_Cat » Sun May 13, 2012 5:03 pm

Suicide prevention week, its Just like teenscreen. It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs for life.

""Procedure on Young Children

Step One

TeenScreen lures kids as young as 9 years old into doing the suicide survey by offering them free movie passes, food coupons, "I completed TeenScreen" stress balls, pizza parties and candy bars - if they consent to the procedure.

One tactic TeenScreen officials use is to sell the child on the suicide survey first and after they have the child's agreement, they later contact parents.

TeenScreen Project Coordinator, Kathleen Cigich, was quoted as saying: "We found early on, though, that sending out letters directly to parents is prohibitively time consuming and gets a low response rate. We thought, why not go to students themselves and offer a $5 video store coupon to anyone who brings back a parental consent form within a two-day turnaround period. It works. Our response rate is extremely high."

TeenScreen also utilizes a "passive consent" form which requires no written parental approval. The passive consent form is sent home to parents and if they don't return it TeenScreen considers that the parents approve. TeenScreen officials favor passive consent because they say it boosts their chances of screening kids to 95% as opposed to the written parental consent technique. What if the child forgets to bring the consent form home? What happens if the parent is too busy to refuse in writing? They've consented in the eyes of TeenScreen personnel.

Step Two

The youngster is sat down and asked introverting questions such as:


•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?

Step Three

Based on the answers the child gives to the above questions he is then shuffled off to a "clinician", who ponders the bogus label to use. """

Step 4...

Read the whole report on teenscreen http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html

And learn about:
"The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention sent out a press release on May 8, 2000, that said Shaffer was their president and they had just released a national survey they had done on suicide. The funder of the survey? A pharmaceutical company. Shaffer's American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has also received $1,250,000 from yet another drug company. "
I survived psychiatry.
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Re: Suicide prevention week, Just like the teenscreen scam

Postby HaxX » Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:55 pm

Subliminal message:
You want to kill yourself, dont you?
You want to kill yourself, dont you?
You want to kill yourself, dont you?
You want to kill yourself, dont you?
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