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ECT: Psychiatric Abuse of Elderly Patients

ECT: Psychiatric Abuse of Elderly Patients

by CCHR Florida | May 22, 2017 | Alternatives, ECT, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Why do psychiatrists increasingly treat the elderly with electro convulsive therapy (ECT)? One of the greatest fears of those approaching old age is memory loss. The fading or complete disappearance of one’s major life events and precious memories is a horrifying...
Psychiatry: Stop Funding the Fraud

Psychiatry: Stop Funding the Fraud

by CCHR Florida | Apr 27, 2017 | DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The primary product of psychiatry seems to be an increase in the number of normal behaviors categorized as mental illnesses, which has skyrocketed sales for drug companies. Even mental health professionals are complaining about the meteoric rise in psychiatric...
Psychiatry: Stop Funding the Fraud

Crocodile Tears: Florida Mental Health Begs More University Funds

by CCHR Florida | Apr 11, 2017 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

In a bid to gain more taxpayer money, University System of Florida members are recommending an expansion of their mental health programs on campus. Dr. Andy King, counseling center director for the University of Florida pleaded with lawmakers. “It may not be...
Psychiatry: Stop Funding the Fraud

CCHR Demands Investigation into Involuntary Psychiatric Examination of Children

by CCHR Florida | Jan 27, 2017 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights

The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, is once again demanding an investigation into the involuntary psychiatric examinations of children...
Systematic Abuse in Florida UHS Facilities Brought To Light By Investigation

Systematic Abuse in Florida UHS Facilities Brought To Light By Investigation

by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2017 | Baker Act, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Are UHS Psychiatric Facilities in Florida Motivated by Profit? In a word, yes. Universal Health Services (UHS), is a corporation that owns over 200 psychiatric facilities in the USA and it’s under investigation by various federal and state authorities for its careless...
The Real Cause Behind School Shootings

The Real Cause Behind School Shootings

by CCHR Florida | Jan 23, 2017 | Children and Teens, Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

While some have linked school shootings to “lack of mental health services” and hint that there would be fewer such incidents if people were under the watchful eye of mental health specialists, the true facts are either buried or obscured. A recent Fox News report...
Massive Fraud & Crime Exposed in America’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chain

Massive Fraud & Crime Exposed in America’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Chain

by CCHR Florida | Dec 19, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Universal Health Services

“Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits.” [1] That is how Rosalind Adams, BuzzFeed News Reporter, headlined her article written after a year-long...
Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

Something Worse than Electroshock Therapy?

by CCHR Florida | Dec 1, 2016 | ECT, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

When psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy fail to relieve a patient’s depression, psychiatrists report he has “treatment-resistant depression”. This patient is then a prime candidate for any experimental lunacy that the profession dreams up because the poor...
ECT: Documented Dangers

ECT: Documented Dangers

by CCHR Florida | Dec 1, 2016 | ECT, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide

ECT is in the news again, with vested interests pushing this barbaric torture device as an actual “therapy” and attempting to broaden its use by sneaking it in through the 21st Century Cures Act. Disturbingly, this proposal – given new life through a complicated...
Chilling Federal Mental Health Proposal

Chilling Federal Mental Health Proposal

by CCHR Florida | Nov 2, 2016 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Fraud, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The “Comprehensive Agenda on Mental Health” [1] calls for a massive expansion by the federal government for the funding and development of more psychiatric mental health treatment for Americans. The agenda statement runs over 5,000 words and cites 25 references from...
Tweaking Crime Rate Numbers Through Baker Act Abuse?

Tweaking Crime Rate Numbers Through Baker Act Abuse?

by CCHR Florida | Oct 1, 2016 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening

We cringe when the crime rates soar in our city and rejoice when it plummets. Published statistics help us monitor what is going on in our neighborhoods, giving us a means to predict the future. Every day families scour the internet, researching the statistics of an...
New Study: Exercise Can Cure Depression & ADHD In Children

New Study: Exercise Can Cure Depression & ADHD In Children

by CCHR Florida | Sep 18, 2016 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Gregory Ramey is a pediatric psychologist and the executive director for the Center for Pediatric Mental Health Resources at The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Ramey is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Ohio...
Psychiatrists Complain They Get No Respect – Stats Prove It!

Psychiatrists Complain They Get No Respect – Stats Prove It!

by CCHR Florida | Sep 2, 2016 | Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs

Echoing 1970s comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s iconic one-liner, psychiatrists are complaining that they “get no respect”. 1 Why would this be? Really, it’s no mystery. By their own admission psychiatry attracts medical students with lower board scores and...
Psychiatry: Stop Funding the Fraud

7 Year-old Gets Involuntarily Committed for School Tantrum

by CCHR Florida | Aug 4, 2016 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Unbelievable as it sounds, grade school kids in Florida are being involuntarily committed straight from school into psychiatric facilities under the Baker Act. In this case from 2009, a 7-year old boy was Baker Acted from Mildred Helms Elementary in Largo, Florida...
Psychiatry: Stop Funding the Fraud

Antidepressants Double Suicide Risks in Teens

by CCHR Florida | Jul 25, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide

Policy makers in Florida are concerned by the rising rate of youth suicides in our state and experts are saying that suicide can be prevented with education and community action. The question becomes what education and what community action is to be used. One expert...
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