Free Baker Act Help  –  Call Us: 800-782-2878

info@cchrflorida.org

Facebook
X
Instagram
  • Opinions & Reports
  • News
  • Report Abuse
  • Donate
  • Events
  • About Us
  • THE BAKER ACT
  • ECT
  • Psychiatric Drugs
  • Veterans
  • Elderly
  • Children
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Elderly, Fraud, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, 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...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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....
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Informed Consent and Psychiatric Drugging

by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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....
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

What is Anorexia? Mental Treatment vs. Physical Causes

by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2013 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Psychiatric Drugs Made Colorado Shooter Violent

by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2013 | Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

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...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Psychiatry’s Push for Mental Illness Results in Disregard for Real Disease

by CCHR Florida | Apr 8, 2013 | Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Benzodiazepines Can Cause Dementia and Other Serious Side Effects

by CCHR Florida | Apr 1, 2013 | Alternatives, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Designer Drugs and Street Drugs Have Roots in Psychiatry

by CCHR Florida | Mar 12, 2013 | Psychiatric Drugs

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...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Mental Health Meds DO Cause Suicide and Violence

by CCHR Florida | Feb 18, 2013 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs

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...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

More Mental Health Programs Mean More Mass Shootings

by CCHR Florida | Feb 4, 2013 | Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs

Since twenty school children and six adults were killed just before Christmas last year in a mass shooting in Newtown, CT, discussions of gun control and more access to mental health services are in the news daily.  There is talk of bans on assault weapons and how our...

What is PTSD? Today’s Latest Military Tragedy

by CCHR Florida | Feb 4, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Disorders

Looking into what is PTSD is revealing. PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is defined on the U.S. National Library of Medicine website as a potentially debilitating anxiety disorder triggered by exposure to a traumatic experience. War veterans often have it....

Americans and Depression

by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2013 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

New Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/CCHRflorida?feature=mhee Most people are unaware that the leading cause of Depression is an underlying thyroid problem.  The FDA places severe warnings on Antidepressants, including suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Big Pharma Profits By Putting Your Health at Risk

by CCHR Florida | Jan 22, 2013 | Fraud, Psychiatric Drugs

Many years ago honest medical research was done for the purpose of creating drugs to cure diseases and other ailments that were wreaking havoc upon society.  Think about where we would be today if quinine hadn’t been found to cure malaria, or what we would do without...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Do Psychiatric Drugs Cause Behavior Problems?

by CCHR Florida | Jan 7, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

There have been 22 International Drug Regulatory Agency Warnings saying that psychiatric drugs cause violence, mania, psychosis and even homicidal ideation. The conditions that can be brought about by taking these drugs are, to say the least, serious problems in...
Depression in the Elderly and Psychiatric Drugs

Helping Children with Depression

by CCHR Florida | Jan 7, 2013 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Some feel the only way of helping children with depression is the prescribing of barely tested and dangerous drugs, many of which are not recommended for children in the first place. These drugs may have disastrous results, as has been proven again and again. It seems...
Page 12 of 16« First« Prev...1011121314...Next »Last »

SIGN UP FOR THE LATEST NEWS

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Name*

Archives

Categories

  • Acadia (5)
  • Alternatives (126)
  • Ask CCHR Series (13)
  • Baker Act (131)
  • Baker Act – Featured (1)
  • Baker Act – Find Out More button (11)
  • Children and Teens (302)
  • Continuing Education (8)
  • Disabled Persons (20)
  • DSM (75)
  • ECT (59)
  • Elderly (38)
  • Foster Care (1)
  • Fraud (128)
  • Legislation (46)
  • Mass Violence (36)
  • Mental Health Screening (222)
  • Mental Illness (228)
  • Military & Veterans (33)
  • Opinions & Reports (11)
  • Parental Rights (42)
  • Psychiatric Abuse (356)
  • Psychiatric Disorders (309)
  • Psychiatric Drugs (475)
  • Rights (260)
  • Sequel (3)
  • Suicide & Violence (107)
  • Uncategorized (5)
  • Universal Health Services (10)

Contact CCHR Florida

109 N. Fort Harrison Ave.
Clearwater, Florida 33755
Tel: 1-800-782-2878

CCHR Florida

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida is an award winning non-profit watchdog organization that investigates and exposes psychiatric abuse and educates the public about their rights in the field of mental health.

CCHR Florida provides only facts and does not provide medical or legal advice.

Our office recommends that an individual seek a competent medical examination by a non-psychiatric medical professional.

 

Awards

  • 2024 Bulldog PR Award GOLD Mental Health Human Rights: Protection of Children in the Best Issue/ Cause Advocacy Campaign
  • 2024 Bulldog PR Award SILVER Protecting Mental Health Human Rights: Coercive Psychiatry in the Best Issue/ Cause Advocacy Campaign
  • Two Awards - Digital Team of the Year and Cause-Related Campaign
    Two Awards - Digital Team of the Year and Cause-Related Campaign
  • Advocacy Campaign - Coercive Psychiatry
  • 2024 Impact Communication Awards: Activism – Coercive Psychiatry
    2024 Impact Communication Awards: Activism – Coercive Psychiatry
  • Media Relations Campaign Winner 2023
    Mental Health Human Rights: Protection of Children
  • Protecting Mental Health Human Rights: Coercive Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Human Rights: Parent & Child Rights
  • Social Responsibility: Parent & Child Rights
  • Social Responsibility - Parents' Bill of Rights Campaign 2022
    Social Responsibility: Parents' Bill of Rights

Contact CCHR Florida

109 N. Fort Harrison Ave.
Clearwater, Florida 33755
Tel: 1-800-782-2878

Free Help

800-782-2878

 

DONATE

 

© 2025 CCHR Florida. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}
Newsletter Signup

SIGN UP FOR THE LATEST NEWS

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Name*