by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2016 | Mass Violence, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
Brad Kenneth Bartelt, charged recently with “aggravated assault, terroristic threatening, possession of explosive material and carrying a firearm in a publicly owned facility” was also, according to himself, taking psychiatric and pain medication. The 47 year old man,...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2016 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatrists like to promote the idea that we’re all capable of going crazy and displaying psychotic behavior out of the blue. While admitting they have no idea what causes all the invented disorders of the brain and mind they have created over the years, they are...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 6, 2016 | Baker Act
What’s it really like for a kid in Florida when he or she gets Baker Acted? How about their parents? These stories are hard to imagine but they actually occur. A little girl named Lee, age 8, began to show some difficult behavior at home and her mother spent a...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 19, 2016 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Is it any surprise that drugs to treat supposed psychiatric disorders are now popularly abused? The very idea that misbehavior, restlessness or plain old boredom in school is a mental illness has led to predictable abuse in older kids, many of whom have never been...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 12, 2016 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, DSM, Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
With new bills proposing some scary, expansive changes to the Baker Act here in Florida, it’s time for citizens and Florida State Legislators to take a good look at what is going on here. The Baker Act allows the involuntary institutionalization and examination...
by CCHR Florida | Feb 5, 2016 | Alternatives, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
There can be grave danger in psychiatric evaluation and diagnosis. For instance, a person physically ill may exhibit a seeming mental disorder, yet be completely sane. If a qualified medical doctor does not get to the patient before a psychiatrist does, the patient...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 25, 2015 | ECT, Elderly, Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
At the most recent annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association two leading practitioners and promoters of electroconvulsive therapy (the modern name for applying electric shocks to a person’s brain using 225 to 450 volts) held a session to educate general...
by CCHR Florida | Nov 25, 2015 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Flibanserin, touted as the “female Viagra” is, in actuality, another failed anti-depressant. Echoing a familiar refrain, researchers insist this drug “restores chemical imbalances in the brain.” Medical News Today reported: “While the exact mechanisms by which...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2015 | Mass Violence, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
Innocent lives have been lost to yet another madman with a gun, this time at a community college in Oregon. As rational people, we know there has to be a reason for the proliferation of school shootings and other mass murders. Some, including President Obama, have...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2015 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse
Psychologists would like us to believe that the work they do is scientific. Dictionaries appear to have accepted this idea – “Psychology is the study of mind and behavior. It is an academic discipline and an applied science which seeks to understand individuals...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 13, 2015 | Alternatives, DSM, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatrist Richard Friedman reflects on American Psychiatry’s quandary in a recent NY Times Op Ed piece: “Despite a vast investment in basic neuroscience research and its rich intellectual promise, we have little to show for it on the treatment front. “With few...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 26, 2015 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
April 7th, 2015 was a landmark day for parents and school kids in the state of New Mexico. On that day Governor Susana Martinez signed into law The Child Medication Safety Act. The new law strikes at the heart of psychiatric drugging of school children. SECTION 1 of...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 5, 2015 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Children who have been diagnosed with ADHD are often medicated to keep them from fidgeting. But a new study of youngsters in the pre-teen and teen years showed that those who moved the most exhibited much better cognitive performance. In fact, the more intensely and...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 28, 2015 | Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Lobotomy, the brutal amputation and mangling of brain tissue, still has a place in modern psychiatry. The rampant public outcry against this practice as typified by Dr. Walter Freeman in the mid 20th century (some likened Freeman’s brutal operations as having a...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 28, 2015 | DSM, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders
Nomophobia and Facebook Envy Depression are a couple of relatively new conditions dreamed up or “discovered” by psychologists and social scientists. Psychiatrists are eager to validate these newcomers and perhaps vote them into existence as “official disorders” worthy...