Mental health is a person’s condition which regards to their psychological and emotional well-being. Mental health is as harmful as a medical procedure. Mental health screenings are the quickest and easiest ways to determine whether you are experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition. It can detect any mental illness that is known to mankind such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, schizophrenia, and many more. From a poem by Thomas Lux, it starts out by saying how he is trapped in his own mind and how a devil is controlling him, and then as he progresses he gets help and starts to see hope and realizes that if he believes and hopes, nothing will get in his way. Some people believe mental health screenings aren’t easy and effective, because suicide still occurs, and kids feel hurt, while others believe it’s very effective and useful because it can stop the worst from happening and makes a student feel better.
Some people feel that having a mental health screening, could make a child feel embarrassed by having the screening and especially if tested positive. Stated in an article, Diller states, “I have witnessed from my own screenings that it embarrass kids and
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“The idea of screening therefore is to prevent, not to cure” (Durojaiye, 2016). In the long run, when doing mental health screenings, they are testing so that mental illnesses can be caught before harm is done to students. Kids take screenings to heart and feel that it’s the end of the world to have a screening done. This can connect back to the paragraph about when it states “I have witnessed from my own screenings that it embarrass kids and teens that may have an illness” (Diller, 2016). Embarrassing and feeling less about themselves go hand in hand as it makes a person feel the same, or less about themselves and the common goal is to improve their