by CCHR Florida | Aug 6, 2019 | Children and Teens, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence
Current debates in the media about antidepressants raise important issues—global antidepressant use is soaring, but the once-touted “miracle pills” now carry international drug regulatory agency warnings that potentially link them to suicides and acts of...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 31, 2019 | ECT, Fraud, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Suicide & Violence
Psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti watched pigs being “anesthetized” with electroshock before they were butchered. This seemed a delightful outcome to Cerletti. He proceeded to experiment on hapless dogs and other animals, producing “reliable epileptic fits.” Apparently, this...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 31, 2019 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Suicide & Violence
Neuroscience News has commented on a study published in Psychiatry Research, which concluded “psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless.” Researchers from the University of Liverpool analyzed 5 key chapters of the latest DSM, a controversial edition of...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 17, 2019 | ECT, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
While July is recognized as Minority Mental Health Month, Rev. Frederick Shaw, spokesperson for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) warns that it can be used to stigmatize African Americans and put them at risk of harm from psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 2, 2019 | ECT, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatrists’ misleading claims could deny consumers evidence of ECT’s real damage, inducing suicide By Jan Eastgate President, CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog July 2, 2019 In a requested statement provided to The Wall Street...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 26, 2019 | Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
By Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International The Mental Health Industry Watchdog June 26, 2019 Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is concerned that President Trump is being misled about a nasal spray depression drug, esketamine (Spravato) being the answer to...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 20, 2019 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence
Interestingly, mental illness is not considered curable by those who supposedly treat it. In fact, according to the Psychiatric Bible (The DSM), there are hundreds of mental disorders. And not a single one of them has a promised cure. In medicine, there are certainly...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 20, 2019 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Studies have shown that people tend to believe whatever their doctor tells them. This is sometimes called “white coat syndrome.” And despite numerous articles equating this with a blood pressure rise in the doctor’s office, the “syndrome” can be a truly...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2019 | Psychiatric Drugs
Federal health regulators announced in April 2019 that manufacturers of certain sleeping pills must now include a “black box” warning alerting consumers of the potential for serious or life-threatening side effects. This is what the agency’s safety alert says:...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 30, 2019 | Children and Teens, ECT, Psychiatric Disorders
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a device to zap a low-level electrical pulse through the forehead of 7-12 year olds as treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). [1] But the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 9, 2019 | DSM, Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog—one of the first groups to expose the violence and suicide-inducing effects of antidepressants in 1989—are advising people to report psychotropic drug adverse...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 13, 2019 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening
The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR, is cautioning decision makers on the use of mental health screenings in their efforts to counteract violence in schools and communities. Citing psychiatric admissions that mental health screenings...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 27, 2018 | Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is urging state authorities and educators not to adopt mental health screening in schools in the false hope that it could prevent acts of violence. Such screening could exacerbate the issue if it leads to children being...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 28, 2018 | Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide & Violence
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to investigating and exposing abusive psychiatric practices in the name of mental healing, is calling upon Florida lawmakers to investigate the plausible link between...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 3, 2018 | Children and Teens, ECT, Elderly, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Mental Health Watchdog calls upon the FDA to ban the ECT device from use after finding electroshock causes brain damage, memory loss and death. The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida announced its support of the nationwide...