“Mental health,” as viewed in the psychiatric industry is seen as mental “illness:” using descriptive names based on biased observation<\/a> to redefine not doing well mentally as a physical disease\u2014with not a single medical test to confirm this. This often leads to the use of physically damaging treatments, but no cures. It is important to differentiate between psychiatry’s definition of “mental disorder” and what is mental health, and not confuse the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rest assured, psychiatrists and psychologists will abuse the current mental health awareness to slip in the need for biochemical “solutions.” Like a Johns Hopkins university psychologist who claims a “really well-structured psychedelic” drug session<\/a> is “equal to several years of ordinary psychotherapy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n CCHR has always warned that psychiatry’s power rests on force and that true informed consent<\/a> does not exist in the mental health system when it fails to inform those needing help that a mental disorder diagnosis is not based on scientific tests and that drugs and electroshock given in the absence of fully informed consent constitutes torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent United Nations and World Health Organization (WHO) reports<\/a> agree\u2014vindicating what CCHR has been fighting for for over 50 years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The World Psychiatric Association<\/a> (WPA) issued a statement acknowledging the international outrage over psychiatric coercion and called for alternatives to psych drugs and restraint use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former United Nations Special Rapporteur on health, Dr. Dainius P?ras, recently was interviewed for Psychiatric Times<\/em><\/a> in the U.S. and condemned coercive psychiatry. He said that psych diagnoses perpetuate discrimination; biological psychiatry hasn’t worked and equated it with “totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.” He called for the “elimination of all forced psychiatric confinement and treatment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Relevant to the recent awareness about mental health, Dr. P?ras also said<\/a>: “There is now unequivocal evidence of the failures of a system that relies too heavily on the biomedical model,” including psychotropic drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then the WHO issued a new guideline for mental health treatment<\/a> in July, attacking “coercive psychiatry” as “pervasive” and that it must change. It supported a ban on “forced hospitalization and forced treatment,” including drugs and electroshock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is important for people to know the differences between mental health and psychiatric “disease,” and to be informed of the failures of this profession in ensuring mental health is achieved as opposed to creating mental ill-health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new major resource from CCHR International answers questions about why is psychiatry so controversial? Why do critics think psychiatry creates unhappiness, rather than curing it? How is it that psychiatric treatment causes harm? Why is that other doctors don’t think psychiatrists are “real doctors”? Why are psychiatrists their own worst enemies, while blaming their failures on both their patients and an “anti-psychiatry” movement that they, in fact, started?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download and read this new publication<\/a>, “Why Psychiatry Sees Itself as a Dying Industry\u00a0<\/em>\u2014\u00a0A Resource on its Failures and Critics<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your support in helping CCHR would mean a great deal. Your help, as always, is an integral part of our success in raising awareness and being able to deliver the facts.\u00a0Please donate to support the cause<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volunteer help is also appreciated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychiatry’s power rests on force. Continue reading Failed Mental Health Programs<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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