by CCHR Florida | Sep 16, 2014 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Depression screening for pregnant moms has become almost commonplace. Central Hillsborough Healthy Start (CHHS) in Florida has a purported mission to save babies. They quote “Sixteen of every 1,000 babies born in central Hillsborough County die before their first...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 12, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Some psychiatrists and mental health workers complain that the very subject of mental health, as well as mental health patients themselves, have a social stigma to overcome. The mental health workers say there is not enough mental health coverage due to this “stigma,”...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 3, 2014 | Baker Act, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
Robin Williams, a greatly beloved American comedian, actor and filmmaker, committed suicide at his home in Tiburon, Ca. on August 11th. How does something as unexpected as this occur? In late June, Williams had gone for “rehab” at the Hazelden Addiction...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 3, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
The tragedy of Robin Williams’ suicide may have repercussions the mental health industry did not predict. If mass-shootings, where youth kill others, while on psychotropic drugs is not enough to cause a widespread investigation of SSRI’s deadly effects, perhaps the...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 18, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
A recent field hearing by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held in Roswell, NM introduced a new plan to help the VA provide medical help to veterans in rural parts of the country by allowing them to get medical care in their local private hospitals rather than...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 12, 2014 | Disabled Persons, DSM, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights, Suicide
In 2004 the FDA required black box warnings on all antidepressants to alert the public that suicide attempts and suicide itself were side effects of antidepressants. Now a “scientific” study is claiming that these FDA warning labels on antidepressants caused a rise in...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 30, 2014 | Baker Act, Legislation, Mental Health Screening, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
Each time a citizen goes on an unpredicted shooting spree we hear pleas for more involuntary commitment laws and programs. Psychiatry has been playing a fiddle tune entitled “If he’d only gotten proper mental health care in time this tragedy could have been avoided”...
by CCHR Florida | Jun 16, 2014 | Alternatives, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Audra McDonald, in accepting her Tony award for her performance in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill thanked her parents. This is not an uncommon thing for an award-winning actor to do. But the impact of Audra’s “thank you” flew in the face of psychiatry’s...
by CCHR Florida | May 20, 2014 | DSM, Legislation, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs
The psychiatrist’s test for mental illness is ever more inclusive. Normal behavior such as grieving for a deceased loved one, temper tantrums, and even hoarding disorder (“persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual...
by CCHR Florida | May 2, 2014 | Alternatives, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Drugs
No one will argue that being in the military, especially during deployment is extremely stressful. During times of war, soldiers see and do things that they just can’t forget. Many come home and are not the same as when they left. Injuries, trauma and brain...
by CCHR Florida | May 2, 2014 | DSM, ECT, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
“Is Psychiatry Scientific? “A Letter to a 21st Century Psychiatry Resident” is the title of a lengthy article by Jose de Leon, MD from The University of Kentucky Mental Health Research Center at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, KY published last September. He...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 16, 2014 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
Come the November election, Florida might drift down the hazy medical marijuana trail blazed by California, Washington, Colorado, the District of Columbia and 17 other states. The issue has been positioned as the Florida Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative,...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 11, 2014 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Military & Veterans, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
It’s been about sixteen months since the tragic Sandy Hook shooting. Following the unnecessary deaths of twenty children, aged six and seven years old, plus six adults, one would think that something would have been done by now to prevent another similar incident. ...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 4, 2014 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
The Signs of Suicide® Prevention Program, a supposed “nationally recognized program designed for middle and high school-age students” is being pushed nationally into many state governments. Ironically, it’s about to be introduced into Newtown High School in Newtown,...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 24, 2014 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights
There is plenty of talk today about children being bullied, not fitting in socially, being assessed at school regularly and having trouble with other life problems. This is so common that children are routinely treated for stress, anxiety and depression. More and...