by CCHR Florida | May 21, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Many psychiatrists assert that mental illness is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. But there are no medical tests to prove this. Chemical imbalance is a theory that does not hold up to intense scientific scrutiny.
by CCHR Florida | May 14, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The condition of Bipolar in Children and teenagers has seen a huge diagnosis increase in the past decade. In fact, it has increased by 40 times. During this same time, the diagnosis of adult bipolar disorder doubled.
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by CCHR Florida | May 14, 2012 | Alternatives, Baker Act, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
If you found out that someone was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, you might assume the person must have some serious mental health problems and needs to be removed from
society to get some help.
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by CCHR Florida | May 14, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
In life, we experience a wide range of feelings – grief, boredom, happiness, anger and
hopelessness, to name a few. These are all normal emotions that people feel
depending on the situations they are faced with each day.
by CCHR Florida | May 11, 2012 | Baker Act, ECT, Elderly, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
If you found out that someone was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, you might assume the person must have some serious mental health problems and needs to be removed from society to get some help. This is not the typical case. In fact, every 1 ¼ minutes, someone is involuntarily committed so it is not logical that there are that many people out there that need to be committed, or “Baker Acted,” as it is known in the state of Florida. Instead of this law protecting individuals, it poses a dangerous threat to anyone.
by CCHR Florida | Apr 30, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Disabled Persons, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The number of children being diagnosed with autism is ever increasingly on the rise. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently reported that autism is almost twice as common as it was five years ago.
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by CCHR Florida | Apr 23, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The dangers of food dyes cause symptoms in children that are the same exact symptoms listed as “ADHD”.
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by CCHR Florida | Mar 27, 2012 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
By Kenneth W. Thomas, RN In an article on March 13, 2012 by Melody Mendez, I read with amazement how technology claims to help diagnose serious mental illnesses such as Depression, ADHD and “other disorders”. In this article quoting information from the Neuro-Therapy...
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by CCHR Florida | Mar 27, 2012 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Ingesting dangerous, synthetic marijuana may well result in a trip to the hospital. Some young people have even been brought to the psychiatric ward under the state’s involuntary commitment law. Drugs with names like “Mr. Smiley,”, “Red X Dawn” and “Spice” were, until...
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by CCHR Florida | Mar 21, 2012 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
When an associate professor of pharmacology at Georgetown University, Dr. Fugh Berman, was asked by two students if they should take a powerful antipsychotic to help them sleep, she was outraged. The young people had not even been given such simple advice as “drink...
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by CCHR Florida | Mar 13, 2012 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
According to a recent article, the placebo effect is being used as an experimental tool on unwitting school children. At least the placebo effect from a power bar with the dubious pronouncement “improves writing power” will not cause permanent mental disability. ...
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by CCHR Florida | Mar 5, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Many people don’t know about special education and the disproportionate number of black teenagers, especially African American boys who are placed in these classrooms. What do we know about special education? It is a $60 billion industry. When it is misused, black...
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by CCHR Florida | Feb 20, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
In today’s world of over-specialized and drug-infused medicine, doctors hand out pills for everything, often prescribing drugs without regard to side effects on patients’ general health. Dentists use mercury, which may preserve teeth but is highly toxic to the rest...
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by CCHR Florida | Jan 16, 2012 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Rights
Parents send their children off to school every day in hopes of them getting a good education and growing up to be mature responsible adults. But what about child mental health? Is that something you want addressed at your child’s school? Are you aware of any sort...
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by CCHR Florida | Jan 16, 2012 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Talking to children is a parent’s best defense against their child’s use of synthetic drugs. In a culture where psychiatry and Big Pharmaceutical companies have made drug use commonplace among our youth, it may be wise to take another look at the side effects not only...
