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CCHR Helps New Mexico Legislature Prevent Drugging of School Kids
April 7th, 2015 was a landmark day for parents and school kids in the state of New Mexico. On that day Governor Susana Martinez signed into law The Child Medication Safety Act. The new law strikes at the heart of psychiatric drugging of school children. SECTION 1 of...
Tardive Dyskinesia: Disability Caused by Psychiatric Medication
Psychiatric drugs have long term side effects that can make a person’s life miserable. Tardive dyskinesia is one condition caused by many antipsychotic drugs. The victim of this condition grimaces, thrusts his tongue, swings his jaw and makes chewing motions. These...
Mental Health Reform Bill Strengthened
Ironically, the “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act,” legislation first introduced in 2013, was supposedly in response to the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. Possibly legislators Tim Murphy and Eddie Bernice Johnson, who reintroduced the...
Deep Brain Stimulation – Another Psychiatric Torture Treatment Emerging
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...
ADHD Research Proves Movement Helps Kids Think
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...
Could Your Child’s Psychological Disorder be a Food Allergy?
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...
Latest Mental Illness Gene Study Targets Artists
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...
New Study Proves People on Psychiatric Drugs Commit More Homicides
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 Stockholm,...
Top Five Psychiatric Drugs Linked to Violence
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...
Not a Joke: Electroconvulsive Therapy Recommended for Children
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...
Psychoactive Drugs Played a Hand in South Carolina Church Murders
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...
Do Legal Psychiatric Drugs Encourage Illegal Synthetic 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...
American Psychiatric Association’s New Logo Reveals Its Sordid History
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...
Are Foster Children Psychiatric Guinea Pigs?
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...
When Psychiatrists Let Killers Go Free – The Insanity Defense
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...
Unconscious Bias – A Step Toward a Thought Police Society
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,...
Foster Kids Abused with Psychiatric Drugs
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...
Psychologists Committing Fraud: A Profession under Scrutiny
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”...
Psychiatry’s Descent to Absurdity
Psychiatry is performing a balancing act with blinders on. With every new addition of the DSM, their absurdist theories on mental disorders steer them toward a resounding crash. Joachim Hagopian, a practicing licensed psychotherapist for over 25 years, has made some...
APA Admits Psychotropic Drugs are Poisons
The American Psychiatric Association online newspaper, “Psychiatric News” proudly reported on April 16th, 2015 that “Psychotropics Lead List for Youth-Related Drug Poisoning Calls.” And indeed they do top the list. But the APA probably overlooked the fact they were...
Warning: Your Pediatrician is now Encouraged to Look for Mental Health Disorders in Your Child
Mental health disorders in a child are being diagnosed with more frequency than ever. The American Academy of Pediatrics states “Developmental screening is a regular part of comprehensive pediatric care, but physicians should routinely expand on that model to include...
Psychosurgery Today – Lobotomy Dead but not Buried
Lobotomy, the brutal amputation and mangling of brain tissue, still has a place in modern psychiatry. The rampant public outcry against this practice as typified by Dr. Walter Freeman in the mid 20th century (some likened Freeman’s brutal operations as having a...
Facebook Envy Depression and Nomophobia Heading to DSM V
Nomophobia and Facebook Envy Depression are a couple of relatively new conditions dreamed up or “discovered” by psychologists and social scientists. Psychiatrists are eager to validate these newcomers and perhaps vote them into existence as “official disorders” worthy...
More Shady Behavior Found In the World of Psychiatric Drugs
“The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry” just published an article in which a host of MD’s and PhD’s explored the idea that many individuals who use antidepressants have no current or lifetime history of mental disorders. Of those currently taking anti-depressant drugs,...
Does Ritalin Stifle Creativity?
Looking at a Questionable Treatment in a New Light Some astute researchers hypothesize youngsters’ creativity is being extinguished by Ritalin. Jeffrey Zaslow, reporter for The Wall Street Journal asks “whether the Ritalin Revolution will sap tomorrow's work force of...
Does Psychiatry Offer Cures?
When it comes to curing anyone of a mental disorder, psychiatrists and psychologists are shameless in admitting failure. Eminent psychologist Tyrone D. Cannon, Ph.D and professor of psychology at Yale University openly states: “Many people wonder whether psychiatric...
Germanwings Plane Crash Now Linked to Psychiatric Drugs
On March 24, 2015 a Germanwings Airbus A320 owned by Lufthansa crashed in the French Alps instantly killing all 144 passengers and 6 crew. The true story has slowly developed and is still evolving but here are some facts that have been revealed by the investigators...
Exposing Psychiatric Criminality at the University of Minnesota
Part 2 of a 2 Part Series The first part of this series explored the suspension of psychiatric drug trials at the University of Minnesota due to the unethical and factually criminal behavior on the part of psychiatrists handling the program. But why did the university...
Psychiatric Drug Trials Suspended at University of Minnesota
Part 1 of a 2 Part Series On March 19th, 2015 psychiatric drug trials at the University of Minnesota were finally halted over a case that began in May of 2004 when Dan Makingson, participating in a test of a schizophrenia drug, committed suicide. The Minnesota State...
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Resurgence Despite Brain Damage
ECT seems to be enjoying a renaissance of use. Perhaps those in the “mental health” industry are hedging their bets for the future, when outraged adults (having been assaulted with psychiatric pharmaceuticals during childhood) choose to sue for damages. After all,...
Florida School Sends Bullying Victim to Mental Hospital
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...
SalusCare, Inc. – Mental Treatment or Mental Harm?
SalusCare Inc. is just another mental health care arm stretching tentacles into an unsuspecting community, fishing for consumers. With a purpose couched in “help,” prospective clients are reeled in, fed psychiatric propaganda, diagnosed with one or several...
Baker Act Is Harmful Not Helpful
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...
Big Pharma and Psychiatrists Are Bad Medicine
The truth about the actual business model of big pharma and psychiatrists has been researched and documented at a new level of detail by a well respected physician and scientist from Denmark. Peter C Gøtzsche, is Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis, and...
The End of Psychiatry: Drugging VS. Understanding
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...
Monitoring the Mental Health of the Elderly
It is very common to hear about someone getting on in years and developing dementia or going senile. Many say the mind is the first thing to go. It’s long been considered just to be a part of aging. Though this can be true in some cases, these days there are...
The Joke is on Us… Psychiatric Students Study Seinfeld
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...
Psychiatrists Admit Popular Sedatives are Dangerous for the Elderly
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...
ADHD Medications Proven Harmful in Three Separate National Studies
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...
Florida Parents – Learn Informed Consent – It Might Save Your Child
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...
Drive Your Health 2015
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The Mental Illness and Criminality Connection
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...
Mental Health and Diet
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...
One life-long thing that can dramatically impact learning
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...
Can Medical Conditions Cause Severe Psychiatric Symptoms?
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...
Mental Health and Diet
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...
Are Mass Shootings on the Rise?
Recently, there has been some debate about whether mass shootings are on the rise or not. Studies have been done using different kinds of criteria thus resulting in different answers. One study includes gang killings and shootings in the home due to domestic...
Comment? Opinion? Decision? Oh my. (Heather Lascano, CEO)
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. Do any...
What Might Florida Be Like if Medical Marijuana Wins?
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...
Your Kid can Dial-a-Shrink at School – Florida Medicaid Will Pay
Florida Medicaid has rolled out a provision hidden in the pages of the Obamacare bill and parents of kids in 13 Florida counties now have health clinics right in their public school buildings. Back in March this statement was made about Obamacare, “But we have to...
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