Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker recently signed a bill to compel all Illinois schools to offer students mental-health screenings. Pritzker proclaimed the new law “is a national first worth celebrating.”

But his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative is far likelier to produce more jobs for therapists than better health for pupils.

Academic achievement levels in Illinois schools have sharply declined in recent years, but that’s not stopping politicians from further intruding into students’ lives and minds.

Therapy can help individuals deal with their struggles and crises. But permitting schools to pirouette as saviors is perilous considering today’s unhinged notions of mental health.

The American Psychological Association designated traditional masculinity a de facto mental illness in 2019, stating its “stoicism” and similar traits are “on the whole, harmful.” So only snowflakes are mentally healthy nowadays?

Psychiatrists have concocted labels that leave millions of Americans at their mercy.

The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) lists more than 300 mental illnesses, five times as many as it specified in the 1960s. Even caffeine withdrawal is certified as a mental disorder.

Dr. Allen Frances, writing in Psychiatric Times, warned that the latest DSM contains “many changes........

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