{"id":1466,"date":"2019-02-24T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:39:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:39:46","slug":"human-rights-in-the-mental-health-care-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/24\/human-rights-in-the-mental-health-care-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights in the Mental Health Care Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal<\/a> number 3.4 says, “By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.” This is certainly a laudable goal.<\/p>\n

We are particularly interested in promoting mental health and well-being. The United Nations measures its success with this goal by reducing the suicide mortality rate. We think this is a useful measure.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the current “standard of care” in the psychiatric mental health industry heavily promotes and prescribes harmful and addictive psychotropic drugs<\/a> which are known to cause violence and suicide, exactly the opposite of this goal. How might we engage to counter this sorry state of affairs?<\/p>\n

CCHR To The Rescue<\/b><\/p>\n

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights\u00ae (CCHR)<\/a> is a non-profit watchdog organization whose purpose is to restore human rights to the field of mental health by ensuring that criminal abuses are speedily investigated and prosecuted and that people’s rights are legally protected. CCHR was founded in 1969 by the late Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz and the Church of Scientology. The CCHR St. Louis chapter was incorporated in 1989 in Missouri.<\/div>\n

The mission of CCHR is to investigate, expose and eradicate violations of human rights by the field of psychiatry. To be sure, CCHR’s investigations over the last 50 years have consistently shown that the field of psychiatry itself is a human rights violation.<\/p>\n

By depicting those they label mentally ill as a danger to themselves or others, psychiatrists have convinced governments and courts that depriving such individuals of their liberty<\/a> is mandatory for the safety of all concerned. Wherever psychiatry has succeeded in this campaign, extreme abuses of human rights have resulted.<\/p>\n

Through the broad dissemination of CCHR’s internet sites, documentary videos, books, newsletters, booklets and pamphlets, more and more patients, families, professionals, lawmakers and countless others are becoming educated on the truth about psychiatric fraud and abuse, and that effective action can and should be taken.<\/p>\n

Has Your Life, or The Life of Someone in Your Family, Been Affected by Fraud or Abuse in the Mental Health Industry?<\/b><\/p>\n

Here are some examples of psychiatric fraud<\/a> and abuse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

No Mental Health Help When Needed<\/div>\n
ElectroConvulsive Therapy (ECT, Electroshock)<\/div>\n
Harmful and Addictive Psychiatric Drugs<\/div>\n
Suicide<\/div>\n
Violence<\/div>\n
Involuntary Commitment<\/div>\n
Being Threatened with Involuntary Commitment or Punishment for Refusal of Treatment<\/div>\n
Being Coerced into Hospitalization or Treatment<\/div>\n
Treatment Without Prior Informed Consent<\/div>\n
Medical Kidnapping<\/div>\n
Forcible Removal of Children to Foster Care<\/div>\n
Forcible Drugging of Foster Children<\/div>\n
Misdiagnosis<\/div>\n
Sexual Assault<\/div>\n
Elderly Abuse<\/div>\n
Insurance Fraud<\/div>\n
Forcible Restraints<\/div>\n
Psycho-Surgery<\/div>\n
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation<\/div>\n
Deep Brain Stimulation<\/div>\n
Vagus Nerve Stimulation<\/div>\n

Tell us how this has affected you. Report psychiatric Abuse.<\/a> It’s a Crime.<\/p>\n

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