US teenager's parents sue school over depression screening test

I am totally opposed to diagnosing our young people with psychiatric
illnesses and giving them psychotropic meds. Based on the materials I
study they can be dangerous to their developing brains. I having been
studying some info that suggests that just our diets alone can be enough
to cause substantial damage to our brains. Why isn't our government
looking at that? (Drug companies? Money?) Why aren't they looking at PET
Scans so we can understand how our brains are being damaged?

I was amazed a few years ago when I heard that someone had done PET
Scans on some of the worst criminals in prison (the worst of the worst).
They found that the more severe the crime had been the more severe the
brain damage was in that person.

I have a real problem with the pyschiatric community just looking at
the emotional and behavioral symptoms and not addressing the biological,
other than saying chemical imbalance, when it comes to our (biological
!!!!) brain. It is an organ in our bodies just like any other organ.

I am trying to educate myself so I don't feel like my ignorance is
part of the problem in what is happening to our young people. Most of what
I personally experience is what psychiatry refers to as "Dual Diagnosis"
(substance abuse and mental illness)

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