CCHR Int

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

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

Psychiatrists and the APA now love to claim they “abandoned” the chemical imbalance theory long ago and that it was never really a core belief, yet this is nothing more than damage control. The truth is the American Psychiatric Association has never issued an official position statement debunking or retracting the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness — a theory that has since been thoroughly disproven by research, including Joanna Moncrieff’s landmark 2022 umbrella review. While Big Pharma flooded television and print with misleading advertisements featuring bouncing Zoloft balls and claims that antidepressants “correct” chemical imbalances in the brain, the APA and its leaders remained conspicuously silent.
They never launched a national television campaign or major public warning to counter the false narrative they knew was driving millions of unnecessary prescriptions. This decades-long failure to correct the record allowed pharmaceutical marketing to mislead the public and fuel the explosive rise in psychiatric drug use, all the while psychiatry continued to profit from the drug company narrative.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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[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.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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. 👇

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

Schools are drugging 6.4 million children just for the crime of acting like children.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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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.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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 👇

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

DOJ Takedown Exposes Over $220 Million Defrauded in Behavioral Mental Health Fraud Schemes “If you look at the providers that have been excluded from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, psychiatrists punch well above their weight in terms of their likelihood of being excluded from the program.”
– Dr. David Hyman, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and Professor of Health Law & Policy at Georgetown Law https://t.co/In7I4HEe8o

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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[Jason Blair @JasonBlairNTD]

Thread: 3 Eye-Opening Takeaways from the First MKUltra Congressional Hearing in 49 Years

1/4 – Successful Memory Replacement Claims

Expert witness and author Tom O’Neill revealed that CIA-contracted psychiatrist Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West claimed he had learned how to replace true memories with false ones in unwitting subjects — without their knowledge.

West reportedly stated it was “feasible to take the memory of a definite event… and through hypnotic suggestion, bring about the subsequent conscious recall (that) a different fictional event actually did occur.”

O’Neill noted the original 1956 report was altered before being given to Congress in 1977.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

https://t.co/cWzADkRbrW

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

SSRIs have been known to cause sexual dysfunction since the 1980s. The FDA knows these 'side effects' can persist years after stopping the drugs—and even be permanent—yet it has failed to issue warnings and has effectively ignored a formal 2018 citizen petition. @PSSDNetwork

[Epoch Health @epochhealth]

Everyone knows SSRIs can dull your sex life while you're on them. Almost no one is told what can happen after you stop.

Sexual health clinics were the first to hear it. Patients coming in years after their last dose, still not right, telling doctors the same thing:

"I came off the Prozac, you know, 2 or 3 years ago, and I've still got the symptoms."

No drive. No sensation. Long after the pills were gone.
The clincher, psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff says, was in the animals: "There are animal studies showing that animals that were treated as adolescents with SSRIs show reduced sexual activity as adults."

It has a name now: PSSD. And Moncrieff says most doctors don't know it exists, which means they can't warn you.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

"Eli Lilly’s worst nightmare." — That’s what the Indianapolis Star called trial lawyer Andy Vickery.
Even though his most famous victory was the landmark Donald Schell case against Paxil — where a jury awarded $6.4 million (the first verdict holding a drug company liable for antidepressant-induced murder-suicide) — Vickery was a relentless force against Lilly’s Prozac for years, filing dozens of cases.
His work helped lead to the FDA’s 2004 Black Box warning on suicide.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

So basically @tiktok_us allows paid influencers to promote the benefits of antidepressants (via telehealth companies like Hims & Hers) — but bans videos of real patients sharing side effects from an HHS event? #Doublestandard. https://t.co/nlacMtXfb0

[Iatrogenic Awareness @iatrogenicaware]

The censorship on @tiktok_us is absolutely insane. A video of @lololizzle sharing her experience with Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction has been taken down for good after reaching nearly a million views and 64k likes for absolutely no reason.

This platform silences anything that it doesn't agree with, and filters about 50% of all comments. That makes spreading awareness for PSSD on that platform virtually impossible.

There is zero freedom of speech here, because whatever isn't seen as 'factual' is removed. PSSD however, obviously is factual, and has pushed thousands of victims to suicide. The fact that these platforms get to choose what stays up or not based on whether or not it's perceived as 'true' is ridiculous.

The PSSD community seriously needs help. We need better options to at least be able to talk about this issue without being censored, harassed, ridiculed and shamed every time we do so. All we are trying to do is give others the warning we should have had, and the world repeatedly, adamantly says no.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

I have routinely come across clients who have been on "antidepressants" for 10 years between the ages of 15-25. They identify as asexual because they have no sex drive. They were never told that these drugs numb the genitals and sexual dysfunction is a common effect.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

About ECT—Constitutional attorney Jonathan Emord has defeated the FDA in federal court more times than any other attorney in American history. Many believe electroshock (ECT) is a barbaric outdated practice from the past that's no longer used — but it's still actively performed today, including on children and adolescents and wholeheartedly supported by psychiatry:
“Substantial scientific evidence shows that ECT is an effective, safe, and well-tolerated treatment... denying ECT in life-threatening situations, including in children and adolescents or in patients who lack decision-making capacity, would be unethical.” — Joint statement by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), World Psychiatric Association (WPA), European Psychiatric Association (EPA), and the Global Expert Task Force on ECT (The Lancet Psychiatry, March 2026)

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

Psychiatrists when asked how many patients they’ve cured.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Youth suicide has been increasing every year since 2007. Know what else has been increasing every year? 15 minute interviews and diagnoses. Psychiatric prescriptions for developing brains as mental health care.

[CCHR Int @CCHRInt]

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