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Task Force Urges Doctors to Screen All Adults for Depression
AP ^ | 1/26/2016 | Lauren NeerGaard

Posted on 01/27/2016 5:51:02 AM PST by EBH

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So, here we go with another government task force...forcing doctors to screen ALL adults for mental health issues. Looking around the web you will find a secondary title to this article that highlights it as screening for pregnant women, but that article clearly states ALL ADULTS.

So when I heard this last night on the radio, my first thought was about Obama's agenda to enact gun control or even confiscation. How incredibly convenient to get a task force together to 'recommend' mental health screenings as ...gee...we all agree that the mass shooting incidents are often mental health related.

Even this article doesn't discern between true mental illness and daily life stressors that can cause deep sadness, like grief.

This if the first step in the government being able to classify you as mentally unstable and keep you from owning your guns.

WOW...this administration is certainly up for using every crisis to their best advantage. Now they are going to screen you for mental illness, whether you are seeking treatment or not. Brilliant!

1 posted on 01/27/2016 5:51:02 AM PST by EBH
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Why should people be depressed under Obamunism?


2 posted on 01/27/2016 5:53:40 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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Related...

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3 posted on 01/27/2016 5:54:52 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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Yep! Back door gun grab!


4 posted on 01/27/2016 5:55:01 AM PST by Harpotoo
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WOW...this administration is certainly up for using every crisis to their best advantage. Now they are going to screen you for mental illness, whether you are seeking treatment or not. Brilliant!

This is so they can decide you either are 'depressed' or have 'tendencies' so they can take your guns away.

Don't play, people.

5 posted on 01/27/2016 5:56:54 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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I figure that they would do a booming business for something like this at a DNC convention.


6 posted on 01/27/2016 5:56:57 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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I figure that they would do a booming business for something like this at a DNC convention.


7 posted on 01/27/2016 5:57:05 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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Tell me how a doctor can screen for depression when they can’t tell Frustration from Depression? Just another reason to grab our guns. Like a Military person reporting PSTD.

Grief gives you depression, chronic pain, violent loss of a Loved One also gives you PSTD to add to the depression which is temporary and does not need medication to fix it. Most sane people learn to deal or cope with it. It is the over emotional immature people who never learn to deal with it or life’s hard knoxs. BEEN there, live it and I don’t need their stinking pills. I have GOD.


8 posted on 01/27/2016 5:57:15 AM PST by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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Step 2: Get ‘em on prescription meds.

Step 3: Confiscate their guns.


9 posted on 01/27/2016 5:57:28 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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I bet they include a provision that refusing to take a test for depression is a sign of depression.


10 posted on 01/27/2016 6:10:06 AM PST by circlecity
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“This if the first step in the government being able to classify you as mentally unstable and keep you from owning your guns. “

Totally agree. I said this weeks ago when they wanted every new mother screened for post partum depression.


11 posted on 01/27/2016 6:10:19 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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Obama has clearly been studying the Soviet handbook on how to abuse the mental health professions for political purposes.


12 posted on 01/27/2016 6:13:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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...and those who are depressed, have their ‘privilege’ to own guns taken away forever.


13 posted on 01/27/2016 6:14:34 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Preparatory to gun confiscation.

Yup.

If you don’t like the government control, you’re clinically depressed and need to have your guns taken away.


14 posted on 01/27/2016 6:24:36 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Jesse Ventura! Arnold Schwartzenegger! Donald Trump! "I'm a big Trump supporter" - Bob Dole.)
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The pharmaceutical companies will love this, too. Heck, they’re probably sponsoring it. Another way to get more people taking their pills and potions.


15 posted on 01/27/2016 6:35:32 AM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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This means don’t go to the doctor for anything, thereby reducing costs.

If you do go, say as little as possible.


16 posted on 01/27/2016 6:41:00 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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“This if the first step in the government being able to classify you as mentally unstable and keep you from owning your guns.”

True dat. No fly no buy no due process list.


17 posted on 01/27/2016 6:42:43 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To keep people from getting guns. Only reason.


18 posted on 01/27/2016 6:47:57 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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If you’ve been “screened”, you can’t own a gun, no matter the results of the screening.

THAT is the purpose!


19 posted on 01/27/2016 6:49:19 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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I don't think "depression" is the problem....

Oppression, on the other hand, seems to be going around a lot now days.!!

20 posted on 01/27/2016 6:49:23 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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