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Early Intervention – A Fraud with a Hidden Agenda
Early intervention into the mental and emotional lives of children was given governmental go ahead by Connecticut state lawmakers recently with the passage of Bill 972 "An Act Concerning the Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Health of Youths." Prompted by the...
DSM V: Laughingstock of Scientific Thinkers
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...
New Video: Your Right to Non-Psychiatric Treatment
Please watch, like, comment on and share this new CCHR Florida Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZhFe5kGg3Y With new Federal legislation, mental health questions will be mandatory for medical practitioners. You do still have the right to alternative treatments....
The Mental Health Fraud of BDSM and Other Sexual Practices
In a recent study, it was found that people that engage in BDSM may be better off psychologically than those that don’t. BDSM is bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism. It was found that people who practiced BDSM seemed more secure and confident and overall...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists
Mental health in America is ramping up. President Obama’s goal is to increase depression screenings for adults and behavioral assessments for kids. This is despite psychiatry’s dismal record of treatment and increased incidents involving school violence and other...
Time for Parents to Question Mental Health Disorders and Diagnoses
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...
Johnson & Johnson Asked to Help Obamacare
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...
Can Anxiety Attack Symptoms Be Caused by Food Allergies?
Many doctors and nutritionists are finding that anxiety attack symptoms and some types of depression are the result of food allergies. Correct the diet and the person's unwanted mental and emotional symptoms disappear. This research flies in the teeth of psychiatric...
Mentally Ill Diagnosis Fraud
Mentally ill people, or those who have been branded as such, may take heart from a book exposing most psychiatric diagnoses as fraudulent. Author James Davies’ research shows clearly that the majority of those with supposed mental illnesses are the victims of...
Military Families Targeted by Psychiatry
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently did a study on military families. They found that one in four children had symptoms of depression. One in three worried excessively and half of the children in the study had trouble sleeping. It goes on to stress that...
ADHD the epidemic of misdiagnosis and overmedication in children
Thomas Power from director of the Center for Management of ADHD at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and US NEWS writes, recent findings that 11 percent of children have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder raise legitimate concerns about over diagnosis, leading...
Hyperactivity and Weight Gain
Hyperactivity supposedly causes weight gain. According to a study recently conducted on two groups of men aged 41, it was discovered that those who had been diagnosed as ADHD carried almost 20 extra pounds, compared to those men free of the psychiatric label. But...
Sudden Death Possible When Taking Antidepressants
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...
Bath salts and Psychiatric Drugs: Are they really so different?
Bath salts, now illegal in the U.S., aren’t in the same category as other FDA-approved medications prescribed by psychiatrists, but both groups of drugs share some startling similarities. One might even go as so far as to say they’re cousins under the same family...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination
Why Teenscreen National Center, headquartered at Columbia University, terminated its psychiatric screening services at the end of last year still remains a mystery to a large extent. Teenscreen directors and spokespeople are absolutely mum on what happened exactly,...
Why is ADHD Rampant Only in the United States?
It is all too common these days that a child who can’t sit still in class or can’t focus on his school work will be diagnosed with ADHD and put on psychotropic drugs as treatment. At least nine percent of American school children have been given such a diagnosis and...
Depakote severely heightens cancer risk
Depakote is an anticonvulsant psychiatric drug that significantly increases one’s chances of getting certain types of cancer. It’s used as a sedative for manic highs, hyperactivity, migraines and epileptic seizures. Among other serious side effects, taking Depakote...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs
Depression in elderly patients is commonly treated with the use of psychiatric drugs, especially when these seniors live in assisted living situations or nursing homes. The rate of depression, one might assume, would increase when the elderly are far from family and...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V
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...
Toddlers Labeled with Internet Addiction Disorder
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...
Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging
All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient of any benefits, risks and alternatives to his proposed treatment....
DSM-V Shows Insanity of Psychiatry
The latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) is due to be released this month. It has been published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) since 1952. Its purpose is to identify and classify “mental disorders.” In...
Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging
All 50 states now require an informed consent document be signed before medical treatment of either a physical or mental nature. A psychiatrist, like a medical doctor, is required to tell his patient of any benefits, risks and alternatives to his proposed treatment....
Involuntary incarceration isn’t solution for personal, social ills
National tragedies like the student massacres in Columbine, Colorado; Blacksburg, Virginia; and Newtown, Connecticut tend to revive state and national debates and legislation on mental health reforms. This often heated political discussion involves the involuntary...
Putting Children on Antipsychotics Is Unconscionable
Antipsychotics are dangerous mind-altering psychiatric drugs that are usually prescribed for schizophrenia and bipolar. They are increasingly being prescribed for disruptive behavior “disorders” in children. These drugs have enough alarming potential side effects so...
Mental Disorder Test Must Include Physical Exam
Any mental disorder test should be accompanied by a physical exam. Since the psychiatric profession admits there is no mental disorder test to determine which of their many labeled mental diseases a person may have, it is important to look elsewhere for a cause. For...
Mitochondrial Disease and Psychiatric Disorders
Mitochondrial disease is a physical disease, not a mental one. The condition results from the failure of the mitochondria, which are specialized parts in almost every cell of the body. The mitochondria create over 90% of the body’s energy; energy which is required to...
Going to Sleep with Benzodiazepines Carry Huge Risks
Benzodiazepines tranquilizers first appeared in 1960 with the introduction of Librium followed in 1963 by Valium. This class of drug was originally intended for anxiety but since they made people drowsy, they also started being prescribed as a sleep aid. These two...
CCHR Florida on Bay News 9
CCHR Florida's Television Commercial Thanks to the help of Bay News 9 and thanks to Dr. Richard Wallace at Bayside Urgent Care CCHR Florida's commercial has now started airing all week long on Bay News 9! Take a look and pass it along! CCHR Florida has a...
Insomnia is More Desirable Than Side Effects of Halcion
Halcion is a psychiatric drug used to treat insomnia and sometimes to reduce anxiety before dental work. It is a benzodiazepine which means it is a sedative hypnotic. It basically makes your central nervous system go into low gear so that you can go to sleep or be...
What is Anorexia? Mental Treatment vs. Physical Causes
What is anorexia? The free online medical dictionary defines anorexia nervosa as “an eating disorder usually occurring in adolescent females, characterized by refusal to maintain a normal minimal body weight, fear of gaining weight or becoming obese, disturbance of...
Psychiatric Drugs Made Colorado Shooter Violent
Last summer James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater and killed twelve people and wounded more than fifty others. Mainstream media didn’t give any logical motives and did not even ask the right kind of questions. Doesn’t anyone wonder how a graduate...
Can Anxiety Attack Symptoms Be Caused by Food Allergies?
Many doctors and nutritionists are finding that anxiety attack symptoms and some types of depression are the result of food allergies. Correct the diet and the person's unwanted mental and emotional symptoms disappear. This research flies in the teeth of psychiatric...
Psychiatric Hospitals a Camouflaged Danger to Patients and Staff
Some believe a psychiatric hospital is the only option for treating a person with severe mental or behavioral issues. But if psychiatric hospitals still conjure up images of abuse reminiscent of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, it may be for a good reason. For...
Psychiatry’s Push for Mental Illness Results in Disregard for Real Disease
The number of “mental disorders” has grown exponentially since they were first collectively published in the early fifties. Since Prozac became famous more than thirty years ago, the number of people on psychotropic drugs has correspondingly multiplied as well. One...
DSM-5 is Coming – Watch Out
DSM-5, the 5th and latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association is scheduled to appear in May 2013. It continues the tradition of creating new psychiatric disorders on a totally...
Benzodiazepines Can Cause Dementia and Other Serious Side Effects
Psychiatric drugs such as Xanax and Valium are pretty much on the same level of notoriety as Prozac and Zoloft. However, Xanax and Valium are not antidepressants but are benzodiazepines. Benzodiazepines have sedative and hypnotic effects. They are widely...
Long-Term Study on ADHD Lacking and Misleading
A new study followed children diagnosed with ADHD into adulthood. It claims that ADHD is not just a childhood disorder but can continue into adulthood. It claims that children diagnosed with ADHD were more likely to develop at least one other psychiatric disorder. ...
Prescribing ADHD Drugs to Children as a Study Aid is Unethical
Stimulant drugs are routinely prescribed these days for children who can’t sit still in class or who can’t concentrate and focus on their work. Many doctors will be overly quick to diagnose ADHD and write a prescription. If this wasn’t bad enough, it has now gone...
Designer Drugs and Street Drugs Have Roots in Psychiatry
Back in the day, it seems like there were only a few drugs used that fall under substance abuse. Going as far back as the sixties, LSD, heroin, valium, and cocaine are names that most people are familiar with. Today, in addition to these drugs, there are many new...
Benzodiazepine Cause Anti-Social Behavior in Fish
Oxazepam is in the benzodiazepine family of drugs. Benzodiazepines are known as central nervous system depressants, which are medicines that slow down the nervous system. In Sweden enough of it is being prescribed that the quantity of the drug passing through human...
Play Therapy; OneWay to Treat Mental Health or Behavioral Health Symptoms?
Play therapy is defined as a form of therapy "used with children to help them express or act out their experiences, feelings, and problems by playing with dolls, toys, and other play material, under the guidance or observation of a therapist.” Play therapy is popular...
New Video: Youth and Xanax
Too many young adults are "sharing" their prescription drugs, without any real knowledge of the potentially fatal consequences. It's vital to raise awareness of the FDA warnings on mental health meds in order to guarantee the future of our youth. New Video:...
Divorcing—And Child Drugging
New 5 minute video. http://www.youtube.com/embed/yyyhSXH4I_g?list=UU-iw0HrAGH65H-N6_e6C8EQ
ADHD–News Update
An article in CNN Health, of January 21st, 2013, suggests that ADHD is on the rise, with 5.6% of America’s white children being diagnosed in 2010 and a marked increase of some 69.6% of African-American children diagnosed with the so-called disease between 2001 and...
Mental Health Meds DO Cause Suicide and Violence
School massacres have been happening for almost fifteen years now if one regards Columbine in 1999 as the first one of note. Mass shootings and murder-suicides date back much earlier. It certainly appears that massacres by young men have been occurring in increasing...
New Video: Elderly and Antipsychotics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-6JmJJ5VXk
Our Soldiers put at more risk
Experiments trying out ecstasy effects on soldiers labeled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) were promoted in an article in the military newspaper “Stars and Stripes” on Nov 20th. Ecstasy (or MDMA) is a party drug popular in the 1980’s and 1990’s and...
Early Symptoms of Autism and Psychiatric Drugs
There are early symptoms of autism that parents are told to watch for in a baby or toddler. Some of them are: Does not respond with a smile if you smile at him or her Will not respond to a familiar voice or to his name Won’t reach to you to be picked up Doesn’t wave...
Schools Should Not Have Programs to Detect Mental Illness
Of course no one wants another school massacre like the one that just occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary a couple of months ago. So how do we prevent such a tragedy from happening again? Some think having armed guards at schools will protect our kids. Others think...
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