So far having watched ABC1 QandA, ABC2 and ABC3 and Listened to RN, Mental As appointed programs, October 4; 5; 6. In all the personal experiences, very little relevant information are heard other than one ABC2 program aired on October 6. I have heard “ages 15 to 18 having mental depression" yet have not heard mentioned government education as a relevant cause of mental illness and or mental depression.

ARE government financed media white washing government controlled education by sounding concerned about mental illness depression, while avoiding mentioning schooling mental stress as a cause?

Badly educated, poorly thinking parents doing a poor job at preparing children for school? Creating generation after generation of poor skilful thinking working class?

You have a point about public eduction, Steve. Its crazy (deliberate) brainwashing is enough to cause depression. How kids can be expected to cope with an increasingly cruel world after that rubbish is beyond me. The ABC and government have no real interest in depression or mental health, except for as a means of taking people's minds off what they (government) are up. The putting up of 'phone numbers with encouragement to seek 'help' is a clue. Enough of it, and people will start thinking that they, too, might need 'help' with their problems. 'Big Brother will help you'. Next thing we know, we will be sent to a centre for reeducation for our 'mentaly induced' political opinions and opposition to government. Gary McDonald was of more use on Australian Story than those pap documentaries.

Mental As is said to be about awareness, bringing to attention mental illness and depression. What I am mostly witnessing On ABC3 are dramatised performances of teenagers and several adults seen as looking normal yet said to be suffering from mental illness.
ABC1 “Changing Minds: The Inside Story (parts 1 & 2)” with part 3 this night, patients talking too much, shifting from ideas to other ideas, described (labelled) by a carer as “a flight of ideas” having “a manic relapse”. I assume, patients seem to be distracting their own mental stress with ADHD talking, periods of anger and hearing voices to block out mental stress traumas, depression. Patients and carers not looking directly at cameras, dramas?

In real life... few teenagers and few adults can honestly deny school was mentally stressful. If people reject education as being stressful, they're in repressive memory denial themselves.

I conclude, Mental As is white washing “6 hour days, plus homework” and “test studying mental stress and anxiety” of government curriculum education as a cause of mental depression, simply by not mentioning any probable education influences causing depression and other mental illnesses. Blaming one off traumatic experiences happening to children while young and military personnel returning from military service.

I conclude, returning military service personnel as having undergone hours of patrolling, being aware of attack by enemy combatants battle fatigue. Not to be merely one off traumatic events.

My accusation is: many aged 5 and 6 years children starting schooling are not emotionally prepared by their parents for many hours of intense attentive focusing. To stay focused on every word from teachers mouths causes increased mental stress; increasing chalkboard copying; correct spelling and handwriting; Noisy, intense classrooms and noisy, overly active children in playgrounds, overloads cognitive stimulation, gradually increasing built up mental stress. As brains adapt over time, schooling becomes more intense. Children ignore/avoid/medicate increasing mental stress with self-learnt tactics: distraction; denial; avoidance tactics; continued childhood narcissism; an obsession with much less stressful physical sports. Unknown amount of children learn to stimulate endorphins (morphine) in their brain.

My accusations towards government education is that many hours of mental stress, students create medicating less stressful behaviours, prompting childhood brains to learn less, in attempts to reduce mental stress. Education is educating child like curios student brains “to keep themselves dumb”. Once being outside school confinements... children are keeping themselves dumb.

A percentage of young children: may create voices using their internal voice; children grown into adults who have poor listening and understanding skills, talk over people whom are attempting to talk to them, to distract mental stress not knowing fears, as an instant childhood learnt knee-jerk-reaction; brain thought reactions turn everything heard and read into humour and judgemental responses. What tactics children create to block fear of mental stress, feeling rewarded, becomes a life long behaviour.
Children and adults have learning disabilities caused by years of refined rewarding proven tactics to reduce mental stress awareness fears.

Brains are sensitive to fear and pleasuring stimulations self-programming. Any learning while being mentally stressed, mental stress becomes part of learnt memories. Increase thinking requires brains to scan memories for similar information. Brains find memories of mental stress traumas, and schooling's irrelevant information not knowing fears, repressing memorised thinking behaviours. Children have stopped learning to think bases on experiences in favour of scanning memories for trivial information memorised with mental stress.

Thinking is mistaken for worrying.

Why children and adults can't realise their mental stress is caused by education, is because healthy advanced brain thinking, mistaken for worrying caused by bad education, becomes repressed, being a probable cause of triggering mental depression.
Rewarding actions to repress mental stress, rewarding flight or fight behaviours, are instantly performed without rationalising thought.
Like computers, brains don't stimulate action unless something is needed to be done to solve a problem. People having psychological problems didn't create problems for no reason. Which I am saying, education prompted psychological problematic behaviours.

I strongly suggest, government controlled education is intentionally traumatising human learning experiences. Government controlled education is a working class education. Ruling classes are fearful of losing control over the masses, for various reasons.

Long hours of pointless information schooling is traumatising human brain development, to allow ruling class controlled media' invented political story telling influences' propaganda to be easily excepted as true events.

Ruling classes want to send men to wars for reasons ruling classes don't want populations to know about. Ruling classes don't want populations to realise, populations are being tricked into murdering each other. Jesus on the cross religious human sacrifice.

Traumatising children and teenagers at school, increasing mental stress up to last days at school, punishes human' incentives for new learning ideas information. Students are being educated to keep themselves (working class) dumb. Societies truck driving intelligence work skills.

Radio National and ABC television programs will draw away listeners attention onto individual boring personalised story telling and misinformation, in order to redirect blame away from school mentally stressful curriculum education.

Myself, having a long time male friend since he was aged 18 years, having witnessed him up to a middle aged male person with extreme depression. After questioning him about his schooling. I concluded that mental stress guided him towards a pathway of self-induced self-medication, using his brain's ability to create endorphins (morphine) rewards inside his brain. He was constantly trying to increase his self-esteem using: narcissism, big headedness; sports enthusiasm smartness. On losing his marriage, increased mental stress lead him to seek prescribed medication; increased alcohol use, increasing his mental stress towards long term mental depression.
What he believes to be true about his intelligence comes from his education grades and media news understandings. If by creating doubt, that he is wrong in what he believes, causes him to increase his depression. Any increased thought, increases his depression. He feels intelligent therefore he is intelligent, fooling himself so he may not feel fear of being wrong.
Many people behave with the same intentions.

Student education is all about not being wrong, not being embarrassed, not being verbally bullied by teachers for being wrong. Student education is about being seen to be smart about simple behaviours, mostly physical achievements. Student education is about trying to have childish fun at every opportunity.

Pretend learning, pretend thinking while chalkboard copying, while under mental stress, allows mental stress to be remembered while pretend thinking is being achieved. Combined subconscious memories (information learning and mental stress) becoming one memory reinforced idea. Long term repeated pretend education remembering while suffering mental stress, traumatises long term learning behaviours.

Most, I believe all teenagers on finishing education will avoid learning complex new ideas, unless forced to. Human behaviours will follow easily understood feel good fun pathways. Working class employment, regardless how terrible employment is, working class will avoid thinking work is terrible, taking every opportunity to enjoy fun self-esteem moments.
Education made to be a terrible experience, conditions future adult workers to endure terrible employment work.

Google websites: “cortisol stress hippocampous” to read how too much mental stress producing too much cortisol, damages an important functioning brain part hippocampous. The hippocampous is described as the cross roads between the thinking brain and the emotional primitive brain behaviours.

Google websites: “education kills curiosity”, to find many personal opinions that wear down readers curiosity. Only one comment I read stating history has been changed with no reasons mentioned to why history has been changed. Few straight out statements that education kills curiosity similar to this reading are seen.

By making one line statements with little to no continued argument explanations, allows readers and listeners, opportunities to feel information as being wrong from what prompted thought already believes. Reinforcing readers future prompting information to be judged incorrect.

I strongly believe and strongly suggest to readers, mental depression is caused by government controlled long hours of mental stressing education. Education punishes long term curiosity using psychological traumas, subconscious memories of childhood schooling, to prompt people into subconsciously avoiding hearing and reading new complex learning information.