Why did the military doctor do .... if it's not allowed for the Service Academies???

[justdoit19]

I don't disagree but young folks don't have enough life experience to know what the 'right' answer is.

…or the life experience to know what answering ‘yes’ could actually do. Open a can of worms that maybe doesn’t need to be opened.

 

[FormerNavyBrat]

I don't disagree but young folks don't have enough life experience to know what the 'right' answer is.

At my son’s 12 or 13 year checkup they have the parents leave the room and give the kids a written “depression screening”. I don’t know for sure what questions are on that specific one but often times they are vague and of the “have you ever” sort. It was the middle of the Covid lockdown and he was cyber schooling and had hardly left the house in months. They wrote a referral to a counselor. My son asked why when we got home, he was not depressed, just tired of Covid lockdown. We did NOT follow up.