The issue of "destigmatising mental health" and child mental health services has been all over the BBC today.
Here are some of the points I picked up from the claims being made by the government today.
"3 children in each classroom have an undiagnosed mental health condition".
"We are introducing a first aid for mental health scheme in schools whereby people in schools will be trained in how to identify the first signs of a mental health condtion".
"Hospitals have been diverting their mental health budgets into physical health departments and we are going to start penalising them for doing that".
With Wessely and his likes all over this what this really means is the psychological profession who are yet unable to qualify what they mean by mental health and psychology etc and distinguish between metal health and misunderstood physical health have lobbied the hell out of government promising them financial savings and more control over peoples lives.
This is a disaster in the making, none of these people care about mental health whatever that is, they just care about market share and they are boosted by their own egotistical belief that they have some magical powers that can identify and treat "mental health conditions" without even defining and all agreeing what they mean by mental health.
Its chilling that its is being rolled out in schools whereby the dinner lady and the part time classroom assistant will be given the power via a day course in "the early signs of mental health", to single out your child into a state register whereby if you tell them to fuck off and leave your kid alone you will then no doubt be put on some kind of watch list for neglecting your childs' needs.
Secondly the claim that mental health budgets are being diverted in to physical health leaving mental health underfunded is right out of the BPS little red book on propaganda.
This is an attack on biomedical science also whereby many conditions could by state order be kept in the domain of "mental health," whilst at the same time real issues with social and development problems can be ignored and controlled under the guise of claiming more and more help is out there.
This, all by definition, means that more people are going to be "diagnosed" with a mental health condition, that's the very aim of the project under the claim that so many are going undiagnosed.
Just think about that in the context of the likes of the Wessely school and how narcissistic they are and in a society whereby science has been totally hijacked by corporate lobbyists who are in bed with government who keep telling us that their job is to shape society.