Psychiatric Hospitals Fail to Warn Electroshock Patients of FDA-Cited Risks in Estimated $7 Billion Industry — CCHR International reviewed more than 50 psychiatric hospitals across 23 states that administer electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and found how many hospitals failed to warn of:
Permanent memory loss (88%, 46 hospitals)
Cardiovascular problems (69%, 36 hospitals)
The right to refuse consent (88%, 46 hospitals)
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If you asked a psychiatrist today questions on how the mind works or how the brain works, you will discover he doesn't know. That's right. He doesn't know. And if you ask him about how #ECT "works", same thing, he will also tell you he doesn't know.
He does however have endless theories and opinions about it, along with copious amounts of speculation, conjecture, guesswork and presumptions.
This "pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey" approach represents the level of expertise and know-how of those who purport to understand mental difficulties and who are in charge of dealing with people who experience mental disturbance. #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #psychiatry #mentalhealth
One pill can change everything. And not in the way they promise.
Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry’s Deadly Side Effects airs tomorrow on International Anti-Corruption Day at 8P ET/PT. https://t.co/rufhagWw7u
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Durante el cuarto día de actividades en la Feria de Servicios “Encuentro con la justicia, jornadas de igualdad”, seguimos colaborando con el @PJCDMX para brindar información sobre el Derecho a la Salud Mental #DerechosHumanos en la vida de todas las personas
Independientemente de tu condición social, grupo étnico o género, tienes derecho a ser tratado con respeto y dignidad.
Los derechos humanos no son negociables.
No te conformes con menos.
#DefiendeLosDerechosHumanos
If the psychiatric industry tried to market #ECT today as "treatment", it would be rejected on the grounds of causing serious harm to a person, such as brain damage and other iatrogenic illnesses.
If the devices being used to electroshock patients were introduced to the market today, they wouldn't pass the standards laid down by the Medical Devices Regulations 2002.
It's therefore extraordinary that people continue to be electroshocked. It reflects the level of psychiatric propaganda being disseminated by the psychiatric industry to hide the damage being inflicted from regulators and law makers alike.
That's why CCHR's around the world continue to post about the damaging effects of ECT. Silence about the brain damage and the assault could be accepted as agreement. Silence therefore is not an option. #mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #mentalhealthawareness #psychiatry #CQC #MHRA
"NOS DISCRIMINAN"
Marco Antonio Caballero señaló la abismal diferencia entre los premios del Maratón de la Ciudad de México.
"El primer lugar en silla de ruedas, débil visual y silla de ruedas se lleva 60 mil pesos y el primer lugar en convencionales se lleva casi el millón de pesos".
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Desde hace 80 años, la ONU ha sido un faro de esperanza en tiempos de crisis, trabajando en todo el mundo para ayudar a las personas vulnerables y salvar vidas.
En un momento en que los conflictos, las crisis y otros desafíos ponen en riesgo a millones, la ONU sigue trabajando cada día para brindar asistencia a quienes más lo necesitan.
Those responsible for continual failures in the psychiatric system, those being psychiatrists and their management bodies, resort to public appeasement by using mantras such as "lessons have been learned."
But lessons aren't learned and never have been learned. Psychiatrists carry on damaging patients and destroying lives with impunity through coercive "treatments."
Psychiatrists and their apologists are on a losing wicket. While they may consider the harm inflicted as collateral damage, they can't get away from the definition of assault.
It's down to the many conscientious people in this world to bring psychiatry back under the law. It starts with education to replace the psychiatric propaganda. #MentalHealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness #psychiatry #CQC #ECT #prescribedharm
Let this sink in: if the #psychiatric industry tried to market electroshock (#ECT) today as a method of "treatment", it would be rejected on the grounds that it causes serious harm to a person, such as brain damage and other iatrogenic illnesses.
The fact that it's still being used and that people are still being brain-damaged highlights the level of psychiatric propaganda that's being used to hide what is really going on. Regulators and law makers may be in the dark which is why it's vital to continue exposing this assault.
When people don't speak out, whether through fear, apathy or simply not being informed, silence is often accepted as agreement and that all is okay. Silence is therefore not an option because everything about ECT is not okay. #mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #mentalhealthawareness #psychiatry
Psychiatric #ECT "treatment" represents man's inhumanity to man. Despite the efforts of psychiatrists and their membership body to sanitise the shock procedure, decent people can see past the propaganda and recognise it for what it is - torture.
For each "treatment", psychiatrists set the amount of current of the shock. Normally, they experiment with different settings to find out how much electricity is needed to keep a patient convulsing for at least ½ a minute after the shock is over.
It's a procedure that has nothing to do with mental health or mental healing but has everything to do with mental and physical torture. #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #psychiatry #UDHR
En el Día Internacional de los Niños Víctimas Inocentes de la Agresión, la Corte IDH recuerda que los Estados tienen la obligación de garantizar la vida, integridad personal y desarrollo integral de niñas, niños y adolescentes, especialmente en contextos de violencia.
La jurisprudencia del Tribunal ha reafirmado que las niñas y los niños tienen derecho a recibir protección reforzada frente a cualquier forma de agresión, abuso o abandono, de conformidad con su interés superior.
Conoce más en el Cuadernillo No. 5: Niñas, niños y adolescentes, disponible aquí: https://t.co/zJ9t5JD5ph
#CorteIDH
#DerechosHumanos
FDA’s Psychotropic Drug-Risk Medication Guides Need to be Mobile-Accessible So Consumers are Warned of Dangerous Risks. The FDA also needs to launch ads informing the public about Medication Guides so they can avail themselves of this information
MedGuides are very different from the small package inserts that usually accompany a prescription drug. The normal prescription drug package inserts can be extremely lengthy, use medical terminology that is incomprehensible to the average consumer, and are normally printed with a very small font (4 point), which is difficult to read.
Under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the FDA requires that Med Guides be dispensed with products the agency deems a serious and significant public health concern (this includes nearly all psychiatric drugs). These are available on the FDA website.
Med Guides were specifically designed to be easier for the average consumer to read and understand. They must:
*Use a larger font (no smaller than 10 point)
*Must be written using “nontechnical, understandable language,” and “shall not be promotional in tone or content”
*Must describe “the particular serious and significant public health concern that has created the need for the *Medication Guide” and must note any known “pediatric risks”
*Must include “a statement of the risk, if there is one, of the patients developing dependence on the drug product”
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As a result of a dismissive and condescending approach, psychiatrists consistently demonstrate their inability to understand the lived experience of someone in distress.
Whatever the difficulties are and whatever the mental trauma is that has caused turmoil in a person's life, psychiatrists follow the same damaging patterns: prescribed #psychiatric drugs and brain-damaging #ECT.
They don't listen to their patients and they certainly don't find out what's actually wrong or what's actually troubling them. What they do is chemically mask or electroshock the problems, turning people into patients for life. It's criminal. #mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #psychiatry
It is both telling and revealing that psychiatrists get upset about their 'treatments' being criticised and exposed for being inhumane. With this in mind, the only action is to continue exposing the inhumanity.
Under current laws, no one is permitted to inflict brain damage on another person, with impunity, unless they are a #psychiatrist using electroshock also known as #ECT. Despite psychiatric denials, brain damage is caused when psychiatrists use ECT.
The fact the psychiatric industry is still allowed to continue this assault under the guise of 'therapy' is enough reason to carry on beating the drum so that it is brought to regulator attention, to Government attention, and so that an end to the torture and inhumanity can finally be achieved. #mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #mentalhealthawareness #psychiatry
“Unlike the rest of medicine, no overall improvement in prognosis has been demonstrated in Europe and North America over the past century for those diagnosed with a mental disorder. Some studies indicate the opposite — that compared to the past, there are now more patients who have developed chronic conditions.”
— Sami Timini, Psychiatrist