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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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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,...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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....
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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....
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
The Reason for Teenscreen’s Termination

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...
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