Electro Convulsive Therapy Archives – Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR

05 Jun

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CCHR Calling for Stronger Informed Consent When Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs

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A recent study of 620,000 people in the U.S. has summarily debunked the claim that depression is genetic in origin. [1] “This study confirms that efforts to find a single gene or handful of genes which determine depression are doomed ...

Human rights group loudly speaks out for nationwide ban on “torturous” electroshock treatment given 0-5 year olds, pregnant women, elderly, veterans…

21 May

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CCHR Led Hundreds of Protestors Outside Psychiatric Convention Demanding a Ban on Electroshock Treatment

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Members of the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) and others concerned about the continuing use of electroshock treatment on 100,000 Americans each year—some aged five or younger [1] marched through the streets of San Francisco on ...

Mental Health Group says Electrical “Treatment” Creates Harm

30 Apr

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CCHR Condemns FDA’S Approval of Electricity-Zapping for “ADHD” Kids

by CCHR in All, ADD, All, ADHD, All, Children, ECT, All, Electro Convulsive Therapy

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 ...

06 Mar

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CCHR Calls FDA Approval of Psychotropics & Electroshock a Colossal Conflict of Interest

by CCHR in ECT, All, Electro Convulsive Therapy

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approving Johnson & Johnson’s (J&Js) new nasal spray antidepressant, esketamine (Spravato) after an FDA advisory committee voted on February 12, 2019 in its favor. The drug is a chemical mirror of ketamine, ...

18 Dec

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CCHR Supports U.N. and Rights’ Groups Demand for Urgent FDA Ban on Skin Electric Shock Devices

by CCHR in Brian Devices, ECT, All, Electro Convulsive Therapy, Patient Rights, Shock Treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it will ban a device that delivers painful electrical shocks to the skin to “modify” behavior in disabled students at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Massachusetts. In a publication of ...

14 Nov

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CCHR Florida Applauds Court Finding Forcible Electroshock a Human Rights Violation: Reinforces the Need to Ban ECT

by CCHR in Brian Devices, Deep Brain Stimulation, ECT, All, Electro Convulsive Therapy, Involuntary Commitment, Patient Rights, All, Psychiatric Abuse

The Florida chapter of the international mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), applauds a recent Supreme Court decision in Victoria, Australia that ruled the forcible use of electroshock treatment (ECT) violates patients’ human rights. The case involved ...

Hundreds of men, women and children made their voices heard at the 2018 Psych Congress in Orlando.

01 Nov

1

Hundreds Gather to Protest the Psychiatric Drugging and Shocking of Children

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The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the protection of children, held a demonstration in Orlando at the Psych Congress protesting the drugging and electroshocking of children. Marching through the streets to the ...

15 Oct

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CCHR: Veterans Get Damaging Mental Health Deal— Suicides increase & VA spends $1M on unsafe electroshock devices

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The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog, is calling for an investigation into suicide-inducing psychotropic drugs and electroshock following a recent report showing that the suicide rate of veterans aged 18 to 34 jumped more ...

03 Aug

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CCHR Calling for Ban on Torturous Electroconvulsive Therapy

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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 ...

21 Dec

2

ECT: The Ultimate Child Abuse

by CCHR in All, Children, ECT, All, Electro Convulsive Therapy, All, Informed Consent, All, Parents Rights, Patient Rights, All, Psychiatric Abuse, All, Psychiatrists / Psychologists, All, Psychiatry, Shock Treatment

It is hard for many to believe that ECT is still legally performed. Yet many psychologists and psychiatrists still insist this barbaric “treatment” does something more than damage brains. For instance, Edward Shorter, PhD believes that sending up to 450 ...

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