If they fail they should be partitioned from society and monitored until counceling brings them to mental stability.
I’m seeing mental problems everywhere; in person and online (name your social media). Most people are clearly mentally unhealthy, they are polarized, sociopathic, delusional, depressed, etc crossing way passed unsafe levels, and we just let them crawl around society.
Now we all can verify that mental problems are increasing rapidly but the numbers would be much higher if they actually were all reported.
I’m going to leverage my connections in society to push a bill to make this reality
A high-stakes “pass or lose freedom” test is the absolute dumbest idea anyone could attempt right now. If you do this in the UK, being trans or anti-israel will fail you. If you do this in the USA, not being “MAGA” will be enough.
Universal health care with some form of applicable sabbatical / vacation / recuperation leave will fix most of the problems you note. A real UBI would fix most of the rest.
Your politics, support or lack of support for a country and gender has nothing to do with psychological test don’t worry
I really suggest you read up on the weaponization of psychology. It wasn’t that long ago that being anticapitalist could land you in a mental facility. Being a suffragette or anything vaguely feminist got a LOT of women lobotomized. Being gay got a lot of people committed, and it was officially a mental disorder in MANY places up until shockingly recently (and still is in some places), same with being transgender or nonbinary or genderfluid.
🫥 they need to update the DSM for sure.
and we just let them crawl around society.
This is enough to tell that you don’t give a shit about the people themselves and understand the authoritarian bent to this proposal.
I care about people not being mentally unstable
See there’s that tricky phrasing again. Saying “not mentally unstable” instead of “mental health” gives away the game.
Keep in mind that social media companies profit by enticing users to engage in their platform. They keep a nice steady flow of extremism to keep their users coming back.
That doesn’t discount that people are mentally ill and still need such evaluations
Unpopular opinion indeed
Who defines what “mental stability” is, and how is this not just a tool to throw undesirables in camps?
How does psychology diagnosed mental illness right now? Same techniques
Just look at the US Dept of Health to see what can happen when anti-science ideologues get this kind of power.
A diagnosis is not the same thing as mental instability. You can have a mental illness that is stable and not be at significant risk of decompensation.
That’s what the evaluation is for. To see who is unstable. Sigh
So each evaluator is independently deciding whether someone is stable based on vibes noted during the “pass or be detained” evaluation?
its about mental illness or mental health.
same as physical sickness and health.
Every person should be given a free psychological evaluation once a year
Oh great.
Every person should be given a free mandatory psychological evaluation once a year
Oh no.
I really want every one in the world to be tested for nuerodivergence because it would be fucking funny as hell if we found out shit’s actually reversed and nuerotypical people are the minority, and thus the ones who are actually divergent. Like how in Xmen the mutants out number the normies.
Man I can’t even get a psychological evaluation when I ask for one. Where are you going to get an army of psychologists to implement mass judgments that are actually fair and healthy?
Have you seen how many people have “psychology degrees” if that field of academia is enhanced and they actually can understand psychology it would be feasible.
Well you get an upvote because it’s an unpopular opinion. But I wouldn’t trust them to administer this in a way I consider fair, and I don’t think they’ll just pay or house people to recover, so they might all become homeless.
I like the idea of getting a psych evaluation. I think it’s a fantasy of being studied, maybe similar to being paranoid. On TV and movies when psychologists are digging into the character, I think that’s projecting a human fantasy of being studied. The idea that you matter enough to attract this kind of attention to your psyche.
Would this end the incarceration crisis?
No that’s not the purpose of this.
Once it gets signed into law it won’t matter what your intention was.
yeah totally like John Nash, James Taylor, Frances Farme, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowel, …
Surely, that wouldn’t be abused.
this is a good conversation topic
Regrettably, stuff like this would be ripe for abuse with the current regime.
You will have no idea whether this would be abused or not. It’s speculation on your part and the others saying such things. You’re saying it with certainty. I find most of you cynical thinkers.
Because you don’t know anything about history it seems. Labeling dissenter as mentally ill and then putting them in camps is exactly what the Nazis did.
So yes, we know exactly that this would be abused, because something much less autocratic than your idea already was abused in the past.
I’m talking about actual mentally unstable people
Yeah and I’m talking about actual real life applications of your idea. Do you think there is some magical fairy that protects the innocent, non mentally unstable persons from the ones who want to harm them? Because as I explained, that’s not how it works here in our reality and capital E Evil persons have used your exact reasoning to socially isolate, incarcerate and in the end exterminate a wide variety of people.
That’s crazy talk, off to the camps for you.
Why not just free psychological assistance? I don’t think like a forced test is a good way to fix issues. It’s not like the psychologist comes, fixes your brain and then you’re all good.
People need to want to improve their life, the psychologist assists in that process.
What the fuck is wrong with you
What’s your issue?
