Oh boy this is just scratching the surface. I would go a LOT further and say the ENTIRE scholastic mental health system is a sham and a massive source of iatro

Oh boy this is just scratching the surface. I would go a LOT further and say the ENTIRE scholastic mental health system is a sham and a massive source of iatrogenic harm that students and teachers are pressured into in order to get more favourable treatment by the schools and government assistance, whereas the schools themselves get more government funding and lowered scrutiny in regards to standardised testing. How can mental health treatment in schools NOT cause harm with such perverse incentives? I had a particularly fraudulent school psychiatrist. When my IQ tested low enough, my IQ score was reported. When my IQ tested too high, it was censored on the grounds of being "misleading". Parental and teacher evidence was submitted to justify further mental health interventions which was grossly fraudulent (I was portrayed as unable to dress or feed myself) and a cursory 5 minute examination of me would have revealed this. One of the most disgusting things they did was pull me out of gym classes to spend more time sitting in a room with special needs teachers who occasionally nagged me to use a planner and do my homework. Exercise you know, being an extremely evidence based intervention for mental health, unlike whatever that shit was. Being treated as mentally ill and being perceived that way by myself and my peers did nothing to help me, especially since it only helped to reinforce the idea that the lifelong physical health problems which got worse during my school years were nothing but "anxiety" and that consequent declines in my mental health could be attributed to my earlier mental health issues and all the medical fraud helped to confuse the shit out of doctors. I think the mental health system is a sham and that it doesn't have proof it treats the problems it claims to treat, and if anything the rise of suicidality over the last few decades as scholastic mental health has become more common as well as increases in self-reported, parent-reported, teacher-reported, and physician-reported mental health problems among students proves its somewhere between totally impotent and actively harmful. The final goal of increased mental health interventions is not getting to a point where nobody is sick anymore, it's to create more patients. The biggest thing that pisses me off is that it's rarely measured if scholastic mental health interventions work, they are just ASSUMED to be positive without evidence. Nobody gives a crap about iatrogenic effects. The episode of King of the Hill "No Bobby Left Behind" speaks to me: https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/No_Bobby_Left_Behind https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/No_Bobby_Left_Behind