Colleges and universities across the United States have policies addressing student mental health needs that are at odds with federal law. A new article published in Psychiatric Services in Advance focuses on a recent lawsuit against Yale University and how this brought to light several problematic policies and practices related to student mental health needs and medical leave. The article describes how the lawsuit led to much-needed policy reform and suggests that this example should be used to address problematic policies across universities.
The author, Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., of Columbia University, describes the abysmal ratings of policies for medical leaves for students across universities:
āJust how far many institutions of higher education have to go was indicated by a 2018 report from the Ruderman Family Foundation, which explored policies for medical leaves among the eight schools in the Ivy League. It rated no schoolās policies higher than a D+; at that time, Yale received an F.ā
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“Student mental health has historically been a big concern on college campuses.” No, us older adults know that psych drugging children used to be taboo, and should still be, so this is a relatively new psychiatry/psychology/”mental health” industry caused problem … given the iatrogenic etiology of all the psychiatric DSM disorders. (See my prior comments on this website, if you want medical links to the proof.)
And, realistically, our society needs to deal with our real societal problems, like the Ponzi scheme of our Federal Reserve monetary system, which is unconstitutional, thus illegal. And is destroying American society, thus legitimately upsetting both us elders, and the younger generations of America.
But, of course, it is this fraud based monetary system that has been funding the fraud based “mental health” industries, to massively and inappropriately mass neurotoxic poison American children, for decades.
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The DSM-5 is a catalog of billing codes. It contains NO statistics. EVERYTHING in it was either invented or created…. NOTHING in it was discovered…. So-called “mental illnesses” are exactly as “real” as presents from Santa Claus, but NOT more real….
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Sadly, if [you] want help or need help, this fabrication of symptoms codes, funding, insurance, Regulations, Governments’ machinations, and even Researchers falling for the trappings, is what [we] get.
Even the wealthy, elite, status, class, powerful, are going to be caught up in the spin of their own making. What values. Whose values. What ethics. ??? It’s all about the money.
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