I'm so sorry about your daughter. I don't have children but I was gaslit and tormented by what was billed as "help" when I was a teenager and young adult, and it makes me livid that it's only gotten worse in the 30 years since. I think the industry should be dismantled.

Giving psychiatric drugs to people under 30 is evil. Yes, the SSRIs do, in a small but still statistically significant percentage of people, cause suicide and other extreme behaviors. The suicide is believed to be linked to the akathisia which a high proportion of people experience on the drugs. Severe akathisia is thought to be what causes suicide. Maybe you know this. I spent a couple years looking into these drugs' effects back in 2000-2001.

The state transing of kids, and parents losing custody or being threatened with loss of custody, over transing, was occurring with psych drugs too, so it's not exactly new. "Trans" was a new twist for sure but severe abuses were occurring for decades, forever really, in the name of "help" or "treatment" for "mental health".

I always think it's interesting they use the word "treatment." I think that's for liability purposes. No one can accuse them of failing to help or doing harm. They can say "We didn't promise to help, we just said we would "treat".

It's interesting you say it was psychologists not psychiatrists who were the drug pushers. This supports my observation that there's no longer a line between psychiatry and psychology. Maybe there never was but as a teenager it was explained to me that their beliefs were completely incompatible and thus they were separate fields.

Are you familiar with Robert Whitaker and his book "Anatomy of an Epidemic"? He uses data and statistics to show that rates of permanent disability due to "mental illness", qualifying people for federal benefits, skyrocketed along with prescriptions of the new psychiatric drugs (starting with prozac in the 80s).

Personally, just as I don't have a "gender identity," I also don't have some amount of "mental" health. I don't conceive of my well-being in that way, as my mind isn't separate from my body. The way I feel ("mentally") is very dependent on how strong and well I am physically, too.