by CCHR Florida | Nov 7, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
The subject of child mental health has become a world-wide tragedy. The vested interests of both the psychiatric profession and big pharmaceutical companies have co-opted child mental health into a money-making proposition. There are documented dangers to flooding a...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 28, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening
Not surprisingly, Mental health services as promoted by psychologists have stooped to a new low. Now they are getting the Girl Scouts to do their dirty work. The debate goes on as to whether the subject of psychology is a real science or simply a belief system. In...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 25, 2011 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs
In a pilot trial being done by the University of South Florida, children are being tested to see if a strong antibiotic is an effective mental health treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Yes that is correct, tested. This raises red flag questions like...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 21, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs
Teenage stress can be dangerous. Some studies show that up to 73% of teens who use drugs began taking them primarily due to worry over school grades. Discord in the family has also been shown to be a contributing factor to teenage stress. The same study showed that...
by CCHR Florida | Oct 9, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Antipsychotics are being increasingly prescribed to children at an alarming rate, some as young as two years old. With many adverse side effects, lack of precise diagnoses and no evidence of long-term results, it is a valid question to ask why are children on...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 26, 2011 | DSM, Psychiatric Disorders
Personality disorders, mental disorders and mental illnesses are all terms to designate some kind of supposed abnormal behavior that needs to be treated. At least, that is what a psychiatrist would say. But who is to say what is normal and what constitutes a so-called disorder?
by CCHR Florida | Sep 26, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening
Mental Health Screening of School Children The Aug. 30, 2011 article in The Wall Street Journal, “Will Students Take A Mental Health Test”, covers the seemingly benevolent issue of whether Florida and other state schools should engage in mental health screening. ...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 16, 2011 | Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatry proclaims that depression is a mental illness which needs to be treated with antidepressants. However, the actual facts about depression do not support this. Of course you can be depressed, but it is not a mental disorder, nor is it a disease. It is neither caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain. Some forms of depression are a normal part of life. Other kinds of depression may need more investigation to find the cause.
by CCHR Florida | Sep 5, 2011 | Children and Teens
Are children with Bipolar the victims of a huge profit-making scheme? Is it possible that the uptick in childhood bipolar diagnosis is related to the huge profits experienced by drug companies and psychiatrists promoting these drugs? There are prominent child...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 5, 2011 | Children and Teens
What is OCD in children, and how is it treated? What risks are involved in standard psychiatric drug treatment? There may be physical causes for what appears to be OCD, and ways to handle it that are not dependent on psychiatric drugs. How do you know if your child...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 29, 2011 | Psychiatric Abuse
If you wish to know the truth about psychiatry, prepare yourself, because it is disturbing to face the facts about how human beings are being treated by mainstream psychiatry. Liberally prescribing psychotropic drugs for more than two decades including “off-label”...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 20, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
It is not just in Florida one finds doctors medicating children, even toddlers, for behaviors long known as normal in children — shyness, restlessness, short attention spans, fear/grief when left by parents in a new school, daycare, etc. Britain now has concern...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 15, 2011 | Alternatives, Psychiatric Drugs
Today, many people are taking psychotropic drugs and have a problem tapering off of them. Mike Cleveland of Setting Captives Free runs into this problem with his parishioners on a regular basis. In an effort to help bring awareness of the alternatives to psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 5, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs
Could stress with your teen lead to false psychiatric labeling? Jeromie Williams, in an article for the, Canada Pop Culture Examiner reports that “Research and records are showing that children and young adults are being diagnosed at higher rates every year with...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 1, 2011 | Mental Illness
A half a decade ago, mental illness was relatively rare, found mostly in mental institutions or out-patient clinics, not in the mainstream. A radically different scene exists today. Millions of school children, previously considered bored or unruly, are now considered...