by CCHR Florida | Jan 3, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
A diagnosis of hyperactive as a legitimate disorder was something Dr. Keith Conners, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Duke University worked hard for. Today, with 15% of all high school children supposedly affected by ADHD, one would expect this man to...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 31, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Diagnosing children with hyperactivity symptoms has become a lucrative practice for the pharmaceutical industry. Shire Pharmaceuticals is one such company with big plans for our children. Spokesmen for this multi-billion dollar industry propose that a child’s...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 20, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Mental disorder tests have been designed and streamlined to quickly find citizens who can be given a diagnosis of “depression” and then a prescription for one or more antidepressant drugs. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that one in ten...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 20, 2013 | DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
The new president of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, has been very vocal in the past few months since he took office. He has written several articles attempting to shoot down critics of psychiatry and to promote his profession. He fails...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2013 | Children and Teens, DSM, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Internet addiction was a term coined in 1995 as a joke. Today it is almost twenty years later and the Bradford Regional Center in Pennsylvania will be offering the first hospital-based treatment program for Internet addiction. This really is a joke as the basis for...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Florida Medicaid is in the news again as a new investigation into the over prescription of atypical antipsychotic drugs for treating symptoms in very young children was just launched at the Federal level by the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Health...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 3, 2013 | Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The profession of psychiatry has successfully established themselves as “experts” in the field of mental health and matters of the mind over the past thirty of forty years. They have also made the public think that “mental disorders” are just like any real...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 8, 2013 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, Disabled Persons, DSM, ECT, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Life can be tough. Bills to pay, jobs to keep, children to feed, mortgages, taxes, insurance, health problems, a toxic environment, bad education, people who do their best to drag you down… Any of the above and a dozen other categories can cause stress, depression,...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
It is good news that a conference was just held in the Vatican to discuss why psychotropic drugs are being increasingly prescribed to young children and whether the clinical trials support this increase. This conference was sponsored by the Pontifical Council...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 21, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
DSM V, psychiatry’s Bible of mental disorders, has been published to an array of ridicule from within and without the psychiatric community. This latest edition of the DSM has concocted mental disorders such as Skin Picking Disorder, Hypersexual Disorder, Compulsive...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
It is estimated that fifteen percent of all children have at least one “mental health disorder” per the criteria in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders). Fifty or so years ago, “mental disorders” were virtually unheard of and psychiatry...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently phoned up Johnson & Johnson, a large drug maker, asking them to help get more people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act health insurance program. According to the New York Times, she also rang up...
by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
Sudden death is a pretty severe side affect for a so-called medicine that claims to improve the users mental health. Yet the list of antidepressants causing sudden death caused by inducing changes in the heart’s electrical pulse and heart beat rhythm continues to...
by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Alternatives, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the federal agency that conducts and supports research that seeks to understand, treat, and prevent mental illness. NIMH recently dismissed the long awaited DSM V manual as being unworthy of NIMH’s future research and...
by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Internet addiction disorder is a controversial psychiatric label placed on people who spend a lot of time in a variety of internet activities. These have included visiting gambling and pornography websites, spending too much time playing online games or constantly...