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Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | Children and Teens, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Johnson & Johnson Asked to Help Obamacare

by CCHR Florida | Jun 11, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Military Families Targeted by Psychiatry

by CCHR Florida | Jun 7, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

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...

Hyperactivity and Weight Gain

by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | Disabled Persons, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Sudden Death Possible When Taking Antidepressants

by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Bath salts and Psychiatric Drugs: Are they really so different?

by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

by CCHR Florida | May 29, 2013 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide

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,...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Why is ADHD Rampant Only in the United States?

by CCHR Florida | May 27, 2013 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Alternatives, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Toddlers Labeled with Internet Addiction Disorder

by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2013 | Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

DSM-V Shows Insanity of Psychiatry

by CCHR Florida | May 17, 2013 | Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

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....
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Involuntary incarceration isn’t solution for personal, social ills

by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2013 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Psychiatric Hospitals a Camouflaged Danger to Patients and Staff

by CCHR Florida | Apr 11, 2013 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights

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...
Mental Health America, Obamacare and the Destruction of Artists

Prescribing ADHD Drugs to Children as a Study Aid is Unethical

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

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...
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