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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“We didn’t realize that his whole memory was gone until after ECT was over.” Margaret Topete says her husband underwent 23 electroshock treatments and lost all memories of his family and life—in Freedom Magazine. https://t.co/gRyVlLuVXQ
Health and Human Services has launched a nationwide campaign to “deprescribe” psychiatric drugs after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced a growing national dependency crisis—in Freedom Magazine. https://t.co/rqgVQOiVDy
Ivan Arjona pressed the UN Human Rights Council to confront Germany’s “sect filters,” urging Special Rapporteurs to investigate declarations that can tie work, contracts and public funding to religious disavowal—in Freedom Magazine. https://t.co/kYL0W5kFQh
A viral video by Mikhaila Peterson detailing akathisia and SSRI withdrawal drew 500,000 views and 10,000 comments in 48 hours, triggering a wave of firsthand accounts of severe psychiatric drug reactions now demanding attention—in Freedom Magazine. https://t.co/fp2Gpow2Ct
Insurance consolidation gives companies massive patient pools, enabling them to negotiate lower rates with doctors. This pressure forces family doctors, who prescribe 80% of psych meds, to see 4 patients an hour.
SSRIs don’t "treat depression."
They numb people. They blunt emotion, alter personality, and disconnect them from themselves.
And we keep prescribing them to kids, teens, and pregnant women as if nothing could go wrong.
Investigations show understaffing and coercion are built into for-profit psychiatric facilities, putting vulnerable youth at constant risk. Nearly half of youth inpatients report sexual assault while held in psychiatric facilities—in Freedom Magazine. https://t.co/5uS9QvnjTL
Pharma pays 66% of Congress, funds med schools, journals, doctors, even the FDA. They own the pipeline from research to prescription. Your "treatment" is their revenue stream. Stop trusting a system designed to profit off your suffering.
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