by CCHR Florida | Aug 11, 2015 | ECT, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatrists are the first to admit they don’t really understand what causes the mental conditions they have labeled as disorders. They also freely admit they don’t really know why a particular drug or surgery “works” but they continue to theorize and experiment...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 5, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Children who have been diagnosed with ADHD are often medicated to keep them from fidgeting. But a new study of youngsters in the pre-teen and teen years showed that those who moved the most exhibited much better cognitive performance. In fact, the more intensely and...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 5, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
When you think of allergies, you probably think of sneezing fits and itchy eyes. It might surprise you to know that there could be other, more dramatic symptoms. Nutritional consultant, Tarilee Cornish, advises that food allergies can create a host of apparent...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 30, 2015 | ECT, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatrists are always eager to get their hands on artists and provide them with the very best in drug and electric shock treatments. The idea that artists must be crazy in order to produce art combines well with the idea that when the artist’s madness gets the best...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 29, 2015 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
A new research paper called “Psychotropic drugs and homicide: A prospective cohort study from Finland” was just published in the June 2015 edition of the journal World Psychiatry. Dr. Jari Tiihonen a professor of psychiatry at the Karolinsksa Institutet in...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 25, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
To assert psychiatry is careless in prescribing drugs for its various diagnosed disorders is a monstrous trivialization of the problem. Many of their drugs have been directly linked to suicide and violent behavior, sometimes resulting in murder on a grand scale. In a...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 23, 2015 | ECT
ECT is described by psychiatric whistleblower Peter Breggin as “a psychiatric treatment in which electricity is applied to the head and passed through the brain to produce a grand mal or major convulsion. The seizure brought about by the electric stimulus closely...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2015 | Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, age 21, carrying his .45-caliber handgun in a fanny pack, sat in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and participated in a Bible study for about an hour. Then he took out...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 16, 2015 | Psychiatric Drugs
Could the booming use of illegal synthetic “designer” drugs be related in any way to the enormous quantity of legally, authorized anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and stimulants prescribed and sold in ever increasing amounts around the world? Psychiatric drugs and...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 10, 2015 | ECT, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
May 2015 at the opening session of its annual meeting in Toronto, The American Psychiatric Association released its new logo designed to symbolize and position modern psychiatry as a science of mind, brain and body. APA’s Psychiatric News announced “The logo depicts...
by CCHR Florida | May 27, 2015 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Medicaid coverage of foster kids has contributed to out of control psychotropic drugging of children as young as 12 months. Because “mental health” services are included in this coverage, there has been rampant abuse. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) in 2011...
by CCHR Florida | May 18, 2015 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
There have been cases of psychotic killers, deemed “not guilty by reason of insanity” being released from mental hospitals and back into society. When psychiatrists testify killers are not responsible for their actions, these murderous men and women often escape...
by CCHR Florida | May 18, 2015 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse
For many years the concept of “Unconscious Bias” (sometimes called “Implicit Bias”) had been bubbling into society from the research labs of psychologists, social scientists and neurologists. Its techniques and trainings have been implemented by governments,...
by CCHR Florida | May 18, 2015 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Foster children are extremely vulnerable. Many have been uprooted continuously with no permanent place to call home. With personal belongings transported inside an empty trash bag, they have little, if any stability in their lives. Yet these children, desperately in...
by CCHR Florida | May 11, 2015 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse
Psychologists seem particularly prone to “massaging” data to produce a favorable (to their own pet theory) outcome. One well-known fraudster is Dirk Smeesters, a social psychologist who worked at Erasmus Uninversity in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. He “creatively”...