by CCHR Florida | Mar 24, 2015 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights
Parents never quite know what might happen when they send their child off for a routine day of public schooling here in Florida. Alishia Montelongo went off to classes at Wolfson High School in the Duval County School District in Jacksonville, Fl. on Monday, March...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 6, 2015 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The Baker Act is the name of the mental health law in Florida and it covers all aspects of mental health including involuntary examination and commitment. This is the law that is initiated to send a person against their will for involuntary examination at a...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 26, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Elderly, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Even mental health professionals admit the death nell of their profession is near. Decades of using drugs to treat invented mental illnesses has created skepticism within their own ranks. For example, Dr. Robert Berezin, a practicing psychotherapist, has this to say...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 19, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Psychiatry professor Anthony Tobia of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is teaching his students about psychiatric disorders through required watching of Seinfeld episodes. It sounds like a joke, but Dr. Tobia is completely serious. He states “When you get...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 19, 2015 | Baker Act, Elderly, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The Dec 17th issue of “The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry” (JAMA Psychiatry) contained a paper describing the over prescribing of a class of sedatives or tranquilizers called benzodiazepines. “Benzos” are all related in chemical...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 6, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
ADHD medications are detrimental to the mental and emotional health of the children taking them. The conclusion that ADHD drugs have dubious results was reached in studies funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the NIMH (National Institute of Mental...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 6, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
A Seminole County mother narrowly escaped losing permanent custody of her child in a case where immediate use of Florida’s Informed Consent laws might have avoided the ordeal she did experience. Sarah Markham is a vegan and a practicing Seventh Day Adventist. She...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 5, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Source: http://www.recallcenter.com/drive-your-health-in-2015/
by CCHR Florida | Nov 12, 2014 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Convicted felons are diagnosed as mentally ill at a rate 2-4 times that of the non-criminal population. It would be easy to make the supposition that anyone who commits a crime is in some degree mentally ill. And not many would argue. But criminal behavior does not...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 10, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
One’s diet and one’s mental health could be very directly related. So much so, that instead of reaching for a prescription drug to “cure” depression, ADD, Bi-Polar Disorder and other mental manifestations, one might do well to take a closer look at what passes for...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 7, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
I plan for 8-9 hours. My husband aims for less – maybe closer to 6 hours. My best pal tallies around 7 hours. What am I talking about? No, it’s not study or homework time. It is the time allotted for SLEEP. Yes, jokes aside, I have been told by some pals that I have...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 4, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Elderly, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Yes, they can. Many people end up receiving psychiatric medications and other treatments when undiagnosed and untreated medical conditions are the true cause of their so-called mental illnesses. Dr. Ronald J Diamond is a Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry at the...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 4, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
One’s diet and one’s mental health could be very directly related. So much so, that instead of reaching for a prescription drug to “cure” depression, ADD, Bi-Polar Disorder and other mental manifestations, one might do well to take a closer look at what passes for...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 23, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Rights
Nope. That won’t work – my mom tried that with me when I was his age. No, my friend told me that they didn’t help at all with her son and it was a waste of time. No – A couple other families told me that their daughters didn’t get any benefit from that at all....
by CCHR Florida | Oct 23, 2014 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
As November approaches, sheriffs and medical doctors all over the state have been coming out strongly against Florida Constitutional Amendment 2 that would establish medical marijuana in Florida. Dr. Alan B. Pillersdorf, president of The Florida Medical Association...