CCHR Int

Official CCHR International— Non-profit Mental Health Industry Watchdog that has helped enact 190 laws protecting patients from abuse.

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In 2006, we asked psychiatrists three simple questions: What objective tests do you use to verify mental disorders? Can you ever cure patients? How do you know which drugs to prescribe? The answers then are the same as today—none, nope and no idea...

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https://t.co/vFPNyFjrxJ

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The "science" behind psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — Psychologist Renee Garfinkle, attending a DSM committee meeting, described how the American Psychiatric Association creates new mental disorders, by a show of hands: “The low level of intellectual effort was shocking. Diagnoses were developed on the majority vote on the level we would use to choose a restaurant. You feel like Italian. I feel like Chinese. So let’s go to a cafeteria. Then it’s typed on a computer.”

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“I have long maintained that the child psychiatrist is one of the most dangerous enemies not only of children, but also of adults who care for the two most precious and most vulnerable things in life—children and liberty.”
—Thomas Szasz Professor of Psychiatry https://t.co/B92e0Ck0NH

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“Suicide, stress, divorce—psychologists and other mental health professionals may actually be more screwed up than the rest of us. In fact, the idea that therapy is a haven for the psychologically wounded is as old as the profession itself. An American Psychiatric Association study concluded that ‘physicians with affective disorders tend to select psychiatry as a specialty.’” — Robert Epstein, Ph.D., Research Psychologist

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Finally Provo Canyon School’s Springville Campus, a UHS treatment facility for juvenile girls, loses license for repeated failures to protect girls from harm, violence, discrimination & video evidence of a staff member striking a restrained resident https://t.co/hJiLtapFzH

[Ablechild @ablechild]

https://t.co/O30noIsA4M

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Psychiatry has a long history of pathologizing women's emotions & behavior, tracing back to the "wandering womb" theory, which held that the uterus could roam the body and cause hysteria—a term used for what they considered any normal or socially unacceptable female emotions or behavior. In the late 19th century, influential psychiatrist-neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot used the ovary compressor—a device with leather straps and padded screws that painfully squeezed a woman's abdomen—to subdue what psychiatry labeled "hysterical" episodes.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Psychiatrists love to label any person (mostly women) who experience strong emotions, regardless of context or history, as bipolar. They use the fraudulent Bipolar II designation.. but the patient does not distinguish bipolar I vs II and labels themselves with a severe mental illness
Thanks DSM 4 for labeling and drugging millions. Also thank you psychiatrists for your willingness to label and drug people so quickly as you adapt to a sick care system that hands out labels and drugs… and help few.
If it wasn’t so tragic it would be comical

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[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

DSM Committee: “This business of turning more and more subjective emotional experiences into psychiatric diagnoses has gotten a bit out of hand. So we’ve added the word ‘scientific’ to the title of our diagnostic manual. Problem solved.”
Good to see the psychiatric profession really grappling with the pressing ethical and epistemological issues facing the field🙄

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👇👇👇 Like so many millions of other children....
"For Danielle, it all started with an ADHD diagnosis in 2nd grade — simply because she was distracted in school — an environment not well-suited for any child to be their true selves."

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

⚠️ WARNING: When you take psychiatric drugs, you are unknowingly participating in an “uncontrolled real-world experiment.”

For Danielle, it all started with an ADHD diagnosis in 2nd grade — simply because she was distracted in school — an environment not well-suited for any child to be their true selves.

“Instead of the medications being questioned, my reactions were interpreted as new or worsening psychiatric symptoms.”

✔ More medications added as the default response.

✔ Life-altering neurological damage.

✔ Emotional damage.

✔ Permanent sexual dysfunction.

✔ Short-term clinical trials that never examined long-term effects.

💡 Have you been prescribed psychiatric drugs? What was your experience?

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yep

[Allen Frances @AllenFrancesMD]

New DSMs have only 1 purpose: Publishing profits for American Psychiatric Association.

Every new DSM (including one I did) caused more harm than good.

Experts hype benefits of pet ideas/Ignore unintended bad consequences.

Results: Overdiagnosis/Overtreatment/Patient suffering.

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https://t.co/5yNmnbcpBi

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I may never enjoy sex because a pill that millions take has left me with completely numb genitals. By the time I learned about this devastating side effect, it was too late... and others aren't being warned https://t.co/t7CiaZuC9b

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Exactly 👇

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Despite 49 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings tied to psychiatric drug use, there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence.

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For over 20 years, the psychiatric industry has known about severe antidepressant withdrawal, as the video below shows—yet psychiatrists still do not warn patients before prescribing them. 👇

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Antidepressant Withdrawal—Litigation in the 2000s revealed internal Paxil data showing 50–80% of users experienced significant withdrawal leading to updated FDA warnings. GSK ultimately paid $1 billion in settlements related to withdrawal effects & birth defects—yet the psychiatric industry continues to downplays these risks

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has repeatedly flagged massive psychiatric overprescribing to Medicaid kids (2012, 2014, 2017.) CCHR Int's 2023 FOIAs from just 32 states found nearly 3 million children (0-17) prescribed these drugs in 2023—including 270K under age 6—costing $1.78B and yet still - no reform. https://t.co/fuYI9DAmBl

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[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

It is imperative that people realise the gameplay.

If suffering, trauma, oppression and abuse is all in our minds - no one has to address or apprehend perpetrators or toxic social systems or cultures.

If everyone is suffering from an incurable ‘mental disorder’ that can only be ‘managed’ with medications - there is immense profit to be made each year (hundreds of billions of dollars).

If everyone is suffering from ‘mental health issues’ but no one ever develops blood tests, brain scans, genetic tests or any other form of biomarker-based objective tests - all diagnosis can remain completely subjective and based on the opinion of just one person. You therefore cannot prove or disprove that you are ‘sane’ - and the system can use a diagnosis against you without any way to prove it is wrong.

If victims of all forms of trauma and violence can be convinced that their problems are inside their minds, they don’t rise up or demand any justice.

Psychiatry is not a helping profession, it’s a very old form of oppression that began by targeting, torturing, abusing and imprisoning marginalised groups of people. Psychiatry at its core is inherently racist, homophobic and misogynistic - hence why being Black/Indigenous was a mental disorder, being gay was a mental disorder and being a woman was a mental disorder. Learning the history of psychology and psychiatry is absolutely vital to understand why now, 100 years later, we slap labels on everyone and hand them a box of pills - but never address or validate the trauma and stress they are going through.

You are NOT going crazy. Your responses and coping mechanisms are there for a reason - no matter how much they do your head in. Humans do not develop behavioural or emotional responses for no reason. They always have a root somewhere.

This is why I am an anti-pathology psychologist, and this is why I work, teach, lecture, and write in the way I do. Telling people who are suffering that they are ‘mentally ill’ is peak gaslighting and our entire approach to mental health is wrong.

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In 2004 FDA expert Andrew Mosholder proved SSRIs raise suicidality in kids—then the FDA tried blackballing him. Read his new article "In Defense of the Boxed Warning" #BlackBoxWarning #SSRI
https://t.co/Wk8JTy9yfm From those of us who were there the history of the cover-up 👇

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The 2004 FDA "Black Box" Warnings on SSRI Antidepressants—A Brief, Vital History of Stonewalling
*In a 1991 FDA hearing before the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, dozens of victims spoke out about becoming suicidal only after being prescribed an SSRI antidepressant. The committee, many of whose members had heavy conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies, listened to hours of public testimony, including from academics citing SSRI antidepressant-induced suicidality, and then voted unanimously not to warn the public about this risk.

*It wasn’t until 2003, after the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), led by researchers, including Dr. David Healy, confirmed the suicidal risks associated with antidepressants in children and adolescents, that the FDA was forced to review their own data.

*With the UK data making international headlines, the FDA was pressured to review its stance on the risks of SSRIs. The agency appointed Dr. Andrew Mosholder, an FDA epidemiologist, to analyze the data on suicidality linked to SSRIs.

*Mosholder, reviewed the SSRI Antidepressant clinical trial data submitted by pharmaceutical companies to the FDA for approval, reviewing years worth of data. His analysis not only identified an increased risk of suicidal ideation and behavior among children and adolescents taking SSRIs but also raised concerns about the drug's lack of efficacy.

*Mosholder’s findings indicated that most of the industry-sponsored clinical trials showed little to no benefit of SSRIs over placebo in treating pediatric depression. His review suggested that the risk-benefit ratio was unfavorable, given both the increased risk of suicidal behavior and the marginal or nonexistent clinical benefit.

*The FDA refused to allow Mosholder to release these findings. The only reason the data was ever made public (that the FDA was suppressing Mosholder from releasing his findings) is because this was leaked to the press:

* The Wall Street Journal broke the story in 2004 that Dr. Mosholder had confirmed SSRIs increased the risk of suicidality in children and adolescents. Their investigation revealed that the FDA had suppressed Mosholder’s findings, preventing him from publicly presenting the research.

*Following the revelations of FDA supression of data the WSJ and other press were exposing, the Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called for hearings as to why the FDA would prohibit their own researcher from releasing his findings.

*During the hearing, in addition to being questioned about not releasing their own data to the public, the Chairman of the committee revealed that a whistleblower within the FDA provided internal FDA memos telling staffers not to comply with Congressional requests.

*In response, the Chairman threatened to send Capitol Police to the FDA’s offices to retrieve the documents if the agency did not comply with the committee's request.

*The FDA was accused of “stonewalling, slow rolling, and plain incompetence” during the hearing.

* A few months after being lambasted by Congress, the FDA finally held their second hearing on SSRI antidepressants causing suicidal ideation. Now with the eyes of the public and Congress upon them, and Mosholder's reveiews out in the open, the FDA finally issued black box warnings on antidepressants causing suicidal ideation.

*This was 13 years after the FDA was first presented with the facts from academics and public testimony (in 1991) providing ample evidence of the exact same claim.

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Finally - the level of abuse at this UHS facilities against children & teens is horrific - see the timeline here https://t.co/iBtueP0vmp

[ABC4 News @abc4utah]

The Utah Department of Health and Human Services has revoked the license of Provo Canyon School's Springville Campus, a teen behavioral center once attended by and later criticized by @ParisHilton for its alleged mistreatment of clients.

This comes as the company faces a lawsuit alleging similar issues.

More info: https://t.co/yUp4bD5at7