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Official CCHR International— Non-profit Mental Health Industry Watchdog that has helped enact 190 laws protecting patients from abuse.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2009
Since 1969, CCHR has been working to secure patient rights and informed consent (non-existent in the mental health industry). These are some of our accomplishments over the last 57 years
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CCHR has helped enact more than 150 reforms that protect the public from abusive mental health practices
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Yep.
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Vested Interests Inventing “Chemical Imbalance” Theory to Sell Drugs—An historical record (1988 to 2008) of CCHR International's exposure of antidepressant risks and the false marketing of the...
There's never been evidence of a 'chemical imbalance' causing depression. Brain scans & autopsies show no objective markers to differentiate depressed vs. non-depressed individuals. #MentalHealth #Depression
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🚨Prozac’s dark legacy: regulators ignored early warnings of sexual harm Internal documents show Eli Lilly and regulators buried evidence that Prozac could permanently alter sexual development. FULL STORY 👇👇 @maryhollandnyc @ACE_CoalitionEd @Honest_Medicine
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Landmark Vote Declares Coercive Psychiatric Practices Incompatible with Human Rights—Unanimous European rejection of forced psychiatric measures exposes a widening gap between U.S. mental health law and international human rights standards.
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Unanimous European rejection of forced psychiatric measures exposes a widening gap between U.S. mental health law and international human rights standards.
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Sixty years ago, studies were done comparing antidepressants with what is called “active placebos,” drugs that mimic the side effects of antidepressants. The conclusion? Almost no difference in outcome. Reading about the results of these 1960s studies was a lightbulb moment for
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Staff in medical settings in Washington and around the country have used spit hoods to subdue psychiatric patients, risking psychological distress, suffocation and even death, a Seattle Times investigation found.
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Many medical facilities across the U.S. use hoods on psychiatric patients to block them from spitting. Experts say the practice is traumatic and can be dangerous.
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For Many Kids on ADHD Pills, It’s the Start of a Drug Cascade—A new Wall Street Journal investigation reveals that children who start on ADHD medication at a young age are more than five times as likely to be prescribed additional psychiatric drugs. https://t.co/lGar44xCIn
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Danielle Gansky was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder at age 7. Soon, she was prescribed a daily cocktail of powerful psychiatric drugs that she would be on for years. A new...
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Americans with Disabilities Act Must Protect Against Forced Psychiatric Commitment and Treatment in Alignment with International Human Rights Law
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Recent UN Disability Committee Statement Reinforces the Urgent Need for Government to Abolish Forced Psychiatric Treatment Policies
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Exactly.
"If you want to increase suffering, you fundamentally get people to battle their own internal experiences. You learn not to trust your emotions, you judge them as symptoms." We are facing an epidemic of iatrogenic harm. Manufacturing a disease to sell more drugs. There are better
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@DrMakaryFDA The @US_FDA is still ignoring the sometimes permanent condition known as Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). In fact, they still haven’t required any warnings about this possibility. After 6 years of doing nothing, the agency was sued by @Public_Citizen. https://t.co/92U92PiGDN
🚨 FDA sued for not acting on a petition calling for the warning labels on antidepressants to be updated. SSRIs/SNRIs can sometimes cause permanent sexual dysfunction, even after the drug is discontinued, and users have a right to know - even if the risk is rare.
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CCHR White Paper Urges Government Crackdown on Troubled Teen and For-Profit Psychiatric Facilities; New report cites abuse, deaths, fraud, and systemic regulatory failure
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No matter how many years (decades) go by, psychiatric diagnosis remains the same. No science, no cures.
A man visits several psychiatrists complaining of the same symptoms... this is what happened #psychiatricdiagnosing
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There is decades of evidence antidepressants cause mass shootings. From the start, clinical trials showed SSRIs caused psychotic violence and suicides but industry hid it until lawsuits revealed it. This article shows just how far the FDA went to bury it https://t.co/wSrxXt4WXn
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How Dangerous Must a Drug Be Before it is Pulled from the Market?
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Author of Still Psyched Out, Kelly Patricia O’Meara was among the first to report— as far back as 1999—on the link between psych drugs given to children, the lack of scientific support, and school violence
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@RepTiffany Puberty blockers are currently getting a lot of attention, but few people know that SSRIs and similar antidepressants can also irreversibly destroy a child’s sexual function (PSSD). Doctors continue prescribing them to children without even warning them. https://t.co/VAh8dVDITM
Antidepressants can lead to physical changes in the genitals. Dr. Ahad Waraich, through the use of ultrasounds, has detected penile scarring (fibrosis) in young men experiencing #PSSD. The penile tissue of young PSSD patients usually resembles that of an 80-year-old person.
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"This sacred part of the human experience has been stolen from me." Some children will never develop normal sexual function because of antidepressants they were given at a young age. Both parents and children are not given informed consent about #PSSD.
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Mounting Evidence of Persistent Sexual Dysfunction from Antidepressants Demands FDA Action: New research confirms a significant percentage of antidepressant users develop severe sexual dysfunction that may persist for years after the drugs are stopped
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New research confirms that a significant percentage of antidepressant users develop severe sexual dysfunction that is physiologically damaging and may persist for years—or permanently—after the drugs...
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Swedish authorities are considering requests for “de-diagnosis services” for autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from a new patient group: adults who no longer want their diagnosis. Should we have something similar in the UK? https://t.co/5n6uPLlTQJ
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Swedish authorities are considering requests for “de-diagnosis services” for autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from a new patient group: adults who no longer want their...
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A landmark Harvard-affiliated review finds that profit-driven biomedical psychiatry has obstructed human rights-based mental health care, fueling coercion, unsafe drug use, and systemic abuses worldwide.
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A landmark Harvard-affiliated review finds that profit-driven biomedical psychiatry has obstructed human rights-based mental health care, fueling coercion, unsafe drug use, and systemic abuses...
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