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NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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....
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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....
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

Putting Children on Antipsychotics Is Unconscionable

by CCHR Florida | May 7, 2013 | Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Antipsychotics are dangerous mind-altering psychiatric drugs that are usually prescribed for schizophrenia and bipolar.  They are increasingly being prescribed for disruptive behavior “disorders” in children.  These drugs have enough alarming potential side effects so...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

Mental Disorder Test Must Include Physical Exam

by CCHR Florida | Apr 30, 2013 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Any mental disorder test should be accompanied by a physical exam. Since the psychiatric profession admits there is no mental disorder test to determine which of their many labeled mental diseases a person may have, it is important to look elsewhere for a cause. For...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

Mitochondrial Disease and Psychiatric Disorders

by CCHR Florida | Apr 29, 2013 | Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Mitochondrial disease is a physical disease, not a mental one. The condition results from the failure of the mitochondria, which are specialized parts in almost every cell of the body. The mitochondria create over 90% of the body’s energy; energy which is required to...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

DSM-5 is Coming – Watch Out

by CCHR Florida | Apr 1, 2013 | DSM, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Rights

DSM-5, the 5th and latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association is scheduled to appear in May 2013. It continues the tradition of creating new psychiatric disorders on a totally...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
NIMH Casts Aside DSM V

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...
New Video: Youth and Xanax

New Video: Youth and Xanax

by CCHR Florida | Mar 5, 2013 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

Too many young adults are “sharing” their prescription drugs, without any real knowledge of the potentially fatal consequences.  It’s vital to raise awareness of the FDA warnings on mental health meds in order to guarantee the future of our youth....
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