Psychiatry—Labeling Kids with Bogus ‘Mental Disorders’
Mental health experts on psychiatry, psychiatric drugs and invented mental “disease”.
CCHR Co-founder Dr. Thomas Szasz Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Dr. Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and a Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is perhaps the world’s leading social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, having authored more than 35 books on the subject, starting with The Myth of Mental Illness, a book which rocked the world of psychiatry upon its release more than 50 years ago.
What’s Wrong with Psychiatry? A Psychiatrist Explains…
Dr. Niall McLaren, a practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, explains what is wrong with the psychiatric profession: That this is an industry which cannot take criticism, for fear the entire model of biological psychiatry will unravel. That there is no science to psychiatric diagnoses, no brain based diseases. And that psychiatry only pushes mental disorders as biological disease in order to convince people to take psychiatric drugs, causing a host of dangerous side effects.
Shane Ellison, award-winning chemist and former pharmaceutical scientist
Shane Ellison has a masters degree in organic chemistry and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his studies in biochemistry and physiology. Here Shane exposes the inner workings of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and marketing of psychiatric drugs and the fact that the psycho/pharma industry is well aware their drugs do not cure anyone. He previously worked for both Array BioPharma and Eli Lilly.
Green Mental Health: An Alternative to Toxic Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatry’s solution to life’s problems is the administration of mind-altering toxic drugs which according to the FDA can cause mania, worsening depression, anxiety, delusions, seizures, liver failure, suicide, mania, heart attack, stroke, fatal blood clots, sudden death, diabetes and much more. Green Mental Health Care is a non-toxic, non-additive and non-invasive approach to mental health which focuses on workable medical, not psychiatric, solutions that have better patient outcomes and are not harmful or toxic to those seeking help…
Dr. Hyla Cass: First Do No Harm
Psychiatrist Hyla Cass describes how most psychiatrists simply label patients mentally ill based solely on symptoms and put them on dangerous and addictive drugs, instead of doing complete physical examinations to find and treat underlying medical conditions which can manifest as psychiatric symptoms.
Ron Paul’s Parental Consent Act of 2009
Kent Snyder, Presidential Campaign Manager for Ron Paul 2008 and former Executive Director of the Liberty Committee discusses the federal plan to screen all US schoolchildren for mental disorders and how Congressman Ron Paul introduced the Parental Consent Act to counter this Orwellian plan which lead to more US children diagnosed with subjective mental disorders and put on psychiatric drugs.
Psychiatry & Politics with G. Edward Griffin
G. Edward Griffin, political lecturer & author of critically acclaimed book about the Federal Reserve, The Creature from Jekyll Island discusses how psychiatry merges with politics to eliminate political dissent.
Whistleblower Allen Jones/Mental health screening of kids
Whistleblower Allen Jones gained international press coverage after uncovering pharmaceutical industry payments to government officials for the purpose of implementing a national mental health screening/psychotropic drug treatment plan. In this video interview, Jones describes the pharma funding and psycho/pharma agenda behind mental health “screening” of schoolchildren. He is a former investigator for the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General.
The CIA Doctors: Psychiatry & Mind Control
Psychiatrist Colin Ross, author of The CIA Doctors and Military Mind Control describes the longstanding relationship between intelligence agencies, the military, psychiatry and psychology in Mind Control experiments on unwitting subjects, including use of LSD, psychiatric drugs, radiation, brain electrode implants, hypnosis, verified through government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Dr. Mary Ann Block, Medical director of the Block Center, is an outspoken critic of children being diagnosed ADHD and put on drugs documented to cause tics, stunted growth, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. She describes how parents are being misinformed about the medical legitimacy of ADHD and the dangers of the drugs being prescribed to treat children. She encourages parents to have their child given a full medical examination to find underlying medical problems that are being misdiagnosed as a mental disorder.
Depression Test Puts Kids’ Health at Risk
Mental health screening is a tool of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, used as a feeder line to get more kids and adults on drugs. “Depression Screening Day” was created by Signs Of Suicide, a group receiving millions in Pharma funding. See www.signsofsuicide.org/ for the documents.
Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
CCHR’s co-founder, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Dr. Thomas Szasz, has been challenging his own profession for decades, calling psychiatry a “pseudoscience.” According to Edwin Shurr of the Atlantic Monthly, Szasz has probably “…done more than any other man to alert the American public to the potential dangers of an excessively psychiatrized society.”
Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
Dr. Jeffrey Schaler’s speech on psychiatry upon accepting the Thomas S. Szasz Award at CCHR International’s Anniversary and Human Rights Awards Ceremony.
Videos about the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and diagnostic fraud.
For Parents: Facts about ‘mental disorders’ & drugging kids
Click here for CCHR’s Parents Rights page. Parents are not being given the facts about the documented risks of psychiatric drugs, the lack of medical evidence for the “mental disorders” for which the drugs are prescribed, or the non-harmful, non-drug, medical (not psychiatric) alternatives available to them. For more information visit the Parents Know Your Rights page here.
Labeling Kids: Childhood & “mental disorders”
Click here for more information http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/ and visit CCHR’s psychiatric drug side effects database containing all international drug warnings, studies and adverse reaction reports filed with the US FDA from 2004-2011
http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/medwatch_psych_drug_adverse_reactions
ADHD—The Challenge
Get the facts – http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/ 20 million kids have been labeled mentally ill and drugged for mental “disorders” that are simply based on checklists of behaviors. Get the facts, not the marketing campaigns http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-disorders/
Big Pharma—Define ‘Better’
Featuring Chill EB – Psycho/pharma spends billions of dollars a year marketing mental ‘disorders’ & drugs for kids — yet these drugs are documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause mania, psychosis, hallucinations, suicide, violence, homicidal ideation, heart attack, stroke and death. What’s more, they are being prescribed for psychiatric disorders that are simply a checklist of behaviors.
ADHD—Labeling normal kids “mentally ill”
ADHD is a bogus mental “disorder” based off a checklist of behaviors. There are no medical tests to prove any child has ADHD, yet more than 4.5 million kids have been diagnosed and put on drugs such as Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta, which the U.S. DEA places in the same highly addictive category of drugs as cocaine, morphine and opium. The “checklist” for ADHD could fit any normal child and literally includes such ridiculous criteria as
“loses pencils or toys”
“often does not seem to listen”
“is easily distracted by extraneous stimuli” (what kid isn’t?)
“fidgets”
” runs about or climbs excessively in situations when it is not appropriate” (we are talking about KIDS here… right?)
To summarize; there are no blood tests, brain scans, chemical imbalance tests, X-rays or “genetic” factors to prove any child has a mental “illness” called ADHD. This is simply a list of child-like behaviors that psychiatrists clustered together, repackaged as a mental disorder and the result is a multi billion dollar empire — the child labeling and drugging industry.
Psychiatry—Labeling Kids with Bogus ‘Mental Disorders’
20 Million Kids & Adolescents are labeled with “mental disorders” that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove they are “mentally ill”, yet these children are stigmatized for life with psychiatric disorders, and prescribed dangerous, life-threatening psychiatric drugs. Child drugging is a $4.8 billion-a-year industry. Get the facts about this multi-billion dollar industry that is labeling and drugging kids for profit.
The Difference Between a Medical Disease and a Psychiatric Disorder
This video shows the difference between a physical disease and a psychiatric mental “disorder”.
Top APA Psychiatrist Needs Lesson in Disease vs. Disorder
The President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), psychiatrist Nada Stotland, obviously needs a bit of a lesson on the difference between a disease and a “mental disorder,” given her recent comments. Diseases can be confirmed by medical/scientific tests. Mental disorders are simply checklists of behaviors.
Psychiatry: No Science, No Cures
Psychiatrists openly admitting at an American Psychiatric Association conference that they have no scientific tests to show mental “illnesses” are biological or physical diseases, and that they have no cures for these unproven mental illnesses.
The DSM: Inventing Mental Illness
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is made up, it is fiction, it is fabricated by psychiatrists. Members of a panel vote on what goes into it, then they immediately start calling them “diseases”. This is fraud.
Few people aren’t affected in some way by psychiatric drugs in society—be it a family member, friend or co-worker, or just from the news of another act of violence tied to psychiatric drugs. Find out more about psychiatric drugs in the videos below.
Read the warnings/studies on psychiatric drugs and violence here or visit CCHR’s psychiatric drug search engine here to see all international drug regulatory warnings, studies and adverse reaction reports filed with the US FDA (from 2004-2001), There have been 22 international drug regulatory warnings issued on psychiatric drugs causing violence, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis, and other violent type reactions. These warnings have been issued in the United States, European Union, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. By the FDA’s own admission, only 1 to 10% of side effects are ever reported to them, so the actual number of adverse reactions is substantially higher than what is contained within these reports.
Psychiatric Drugs—Search Warnings, Studies, & Side Effects
Click here to visit the psychiatric drug search engine provided as a free public service by CCHR International, which contains a full list of international drug regulatory warnings & studies issued on psychiatric drugs, along with all adverse reaction reports on psychiatric drugs which have been filed with the US FDA from 2004 – 2011 by doctors, pharmacists, other healthcare providers, consumers and attorneys. All of this information has been compiled into one easy to search online search engine by the staff of CCHR International in order to provide the public at large with the facts about psychiatric drug dangers. By the FDA’s own admission, only 1 — 10% of drug side effects are ever reported to the FDA so the numbers contained in this database are much lower than what is actually occurring out in the consumer market. As psychiatric drugs are approved solely on short clinical trials (4-6 weeks), with virtually no long term studies once they are released for mass consumption into the consumer market – the Medwatch reports represent the only real post market surveillance of these drugs. This search engine essentially comprises all known, documented risks of psychiatric drugs. It does not contain opinion, just documented studies, warnings and post market data.
From Tragedy to Crusade—A Mother’s Antidepressant Warning
Maria Bradshaw lost her only child to SSRI antidepressant induced suicide in 2008. She turned her personal tragedy into a crusade to help other parents on the dangers of antidepressant drugs and is founder of CASPER – Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education and Research. She was worked closely with CCHR New Zealand ever since the tragic event and was the recipient of CCHR’s Human Rights Award 2012 for her work in raising awareness on the dangers of child drugging. She has an MBA from Auckland University.
CCHR Human Rights Awardee: Maryanne Godboldo
Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo receiving a Human Rights Award from actors Danny Masterson and Ethan Suplee at the CCHR International annual human rights awards banquet in Los Angeles. Former Human Rights awardees include members of Congress, state legislators, psychologists, medical doctors, attorneys, whistleblowers, civil and human rights activists.
Antidepressant Induced Suicide—One Mother’s Crusade
Watch the documentary Dead Wrong featuring Celeste Steubing and other mothers who work alongside CCHR to expose the lethal risks of prescribing psychiatric drugs to kids.
Psychiatric Drugging of Foster Kids
52% of kids in foster care are being prescribed dangerous and deadly psychiatric drugs. Many are on cocktails of prescribed drugs, including antipsychotics and antidepressants with documented side effects of diabetes, stroke, mania, psychosis, tumors, coma, suicide and death.
Drugging Our Children—Side Effects
20 million children are taking psychiatric drugs, and parents, legislators and the general public are not being given the documented risks from international drug regulatory agencies and medical journals. CCHR has created a one of a kind psychiatric drug database containing all international warnings and studies on psychiatric drugs in an easy to search online database. People can search for drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, Prozac, Zoloft, Seroquel (any brand name drug) or by drug class such as antidepressant, antipsychotic or stimulant. They can also search all adverse reactions to psychiatric drugs that have been reported to the U.S. FDA between 2004-2008. cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers
Psychiatric drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants, have serious, life threatening side effects and patient’s are rarely warned about the full risks of the drugs. International drug regulatory agencies including the U.S. FDA warn that these drugs can and do cause worsening depression, mania, aggression, psychosis, depersonalization, diabetes, hallucinations, suicidal and homicidal thoughts, heart attack, stroke and sudden death.
The Psycho Pharmaceutical Industry with former Pharma Scientist
Shane Ellison has a masters degree in organic chemistry and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his studies in biochemistry and physiology. Here Shane exposes the inner workings of the psycho/pharmaceutical industry, the manufacture and marketing of psychiatric drugs and the fact that the psycho/pharma industry is well aware their drugs do not cure anyone. He previously worked for both Array BioPharma and Eli Lilly.
Dr. Mary Ann Block, Medical director of the Block Center, is an outspoken critic of children being diagnosed ADHD and put on drugs documented to cause tics, stunted growth, heart attack, stroke and sudden death. She describes how parents are being misinformed about the medical legitimacy of ADHD and the dangers of the drugs being prescribed to treat children. She encourages parents to have their child given a full medical examination to find underlying medical problems that are being misdiagnosed as a mental disorder.
Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine
For the first time the side effects of psychiatric drugs that have been reported to the FDA have been decrypted and been made available to the public in an easy to search psychiatric drug side effects database and search engine.
Drug Ad Parody: Tripolar Disorder
Parody: What the antidepressant drug commericals should show as these are FDA documented side effects of antidepressants.
20 million children are currently taking psychiatric drugs documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause heart attacks, strokes, mania, violence, psychosis, sudden death and suicide.
Families who were never warned of the risks and suffered tremendous loss are fighting back to help save other children’s lives.
Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging
The trailer for CCHR’s award-winning documentary Making a Killing. Examining the controversy surrounding psychiatric drugs, the film features interviews with scores of mental health experts, patients and family members and provides consumers with vital facts. The film has been honored with a Silver Telly Award, an Accolade Award for Best of Show and two Communicator Awards of Distinction.
A Warning on Antidepressants for Pregnant/Nursing Women
This is the story of a mother who took an antidepressant while pregnant, and was never warned of the risks or the fact that thousands of reports of infant deaths and birth defects have been reported to the FDA for pregnant and nursing mothers taking psychiatric drugs.
Psychiatry’s Prescription for Violence — teaser
Is there a link between the rise of senseless violence and school shootings in society and psychiatric drugs? Watch this trailer for CCHR’s 11-minute documentary, Psychiatry’s Prescription for Violence
1991 FDA Hearing with Testimony
As far back as 1991 CCHR was exposing the fact that antidepressants can cause suicide and violence. It would take 13 years for the FDA to finally admit this was true, and issued the agencies strongest warning, the “black box”, in 2004.
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This video features: Amy Philo, a mother who put herself through law school to help other women who had been misled or coerced into taking psychiatric drugs during or after pregnancy.
Celeste Steubing, whose son committed suicide under the influence of an antidepressant and who became an advocate for mothers everywhere against the lack of information being given parents about the documented risks of psychiatric drugs prescribed to children.
Maria Bradshaw, whose son committed suicide under the influence of an antidepressant and who became a national voice for parents rights in the country of New Zealand – as well as many other mothers who have worked alongside CCHR – including Patricia Weathers and Sheila Mathews – founders of Ablechild – Maryanne Godboldo, Vickie Dunkle and Mathy Downing.
The Psychiatry Museum is located at CCHR’s International headquarters in Los Angeles, California. Each week 500-700 people tour through the museum which features the origins of psychiatry up on through its modern day practices. CCHR is an international mental health watchdog, with 250 chapters in 34 countries. Their mission is to restore human rights to the field of mental health.
Psychiatric Abuse of the Elderly
Psychiatry and those who follow their practices (drugs, restraints, electroshock) have no reverence or respect for the elderly, and employ dangerous drugs and ‘treatments’ as a method of control and keeping them quiet. They will happily supply endless prescriptions of psychoactive drugs or ECT. In just a six-month time period in 2007, Medicare received $309 million in claims for antipsychotics for elderly in nursing homes. Daniel R. Levinson, Office of Inspector General (OIG), Department of Health and Human Services, stated recently, “Despite the fact that it is potentially lethal to prescribe antipsychotics to patients with dementia, there’s ample evidence that some drug companies aggressively marketed their products towards such populations, putting profits before safety…. Government, taxpayers, nursing home residents, as well as their families and caregivers should be outraged — and seek solutions.”
Electroshock — It’s Not Treatment, It’s Torture
Electroshock, renamed electroconvulsive therapy or ECT is not only still being given to hundreds of thousands per year, but frequently without their consent. Documented effects of electroshock include short and long term memory loss, brain seizures, life-threatening cardiovascular events and death. Psychiatrists admit they don’t know how ECT “works” but that doesn’t stop them from administering it to hundreds of thousands of people per year, including the elderly, children and pregnant women. Recently, press have reported that ECT is making a “comeback” but what most don’t realize, is that electroshock (ECT) never went away.
Antidepressants and Child Suicides – “Home Movie”
Antidepressants have been documented by the FDA and international drug regulatory agencies to cause suicide, mania, psychosis and violence. Parents are frequently not warned about the drug risks.
Psychiatric Drugs and Child Suicides – “Matt”
The FDA issued black box warnings in 2004 that antidepressants can cause suicide in children and adolescents. The FDA also reports antidepressants have side effects including mania, psychosis, hostility, depersonalization, worsening depression and more. Parents are not being completely informed of these documented risks.
Psychiatric Drugs and Child Suicides – “Jacob”
The FDA issued black box warnings in 2004 that antidepressants can cause suicide in children and adolescents. The FDA also reports antidepressants have side effects including mania, psychosis, hostility, depersonalization, worsening depression and more. Parents are not being completely informed of these documented risks.
Psychiatric Drugs and Violence – “Office Visit”
A warning about the documented risks of psychiatric drugs and violence (international drug regulators cite mania, psychosis, suicide, depersonalization and homicidal ideation for antidepressant drugs). These drugs also have an FDA blackbox warning on suicidality.
Antidepressants and Child Suicides – “Prescription”
A PSA on the issue of psychiatric drugs (particularly antidepressants) and suicide. The FDA issued black box warnings on antidepressants for child suicides in 2004.
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Drugging the American Soldier—Military’s reliance on strong psychiatric drugs
FOX Special Report – Reporter Jamie Colby: Some really important concerns this Memorial Day weekend about the treatment our soldiers receive when they return from battle. And there’s a Fox News investigation into the increased use of powerful psychiatric drugs on our veterans and the impact these drugs are having. Our Douglas Kennedy looked into this as part of our series on drugging the American soldier.
Michael Moore – Reveals the real cause of Columbine
Watch this short interview with Michael Moore, author, director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, where he calls for a federal investigation into the link between prescribed drugs and mass shootings such as the 1999 Columbine massacre.
Rafael Casal – A.D.D. @ Brave New Voices
Gavin DeGraw—Medicate the Kids
Lyrics: Tell ‘em, “Say no to drugs”, “Substances make you dumb”, Then you say, “give ‘em some”, Are you the victim, Of this experience, Child experiment, Teacher’s predicament?, You’re in THE SYSTEM.
This compelling documentary chronicles an unprecedented change in Western culture: drugging children with dangerous psychiatric medications.
Psychiatry is fake science. The “Thud” Experiment proof
The enthralling account of psychiatrist David Rosenhan’s experiment showing how easily a perfectly normal and health person could be committed into a psychiatric institution, and what happened when the embarrassed psychiatrists challenged Rosenhan to try it again.
Douglas Kennedy appears on Hannity’s America, and reports that psychiatric treatment not only doesn’t work, but continues to be linked to acts of violence and suicide. If you’re concerned about the increase in societal and teen violence, this video is a must-watch.
Despondex: For the “annoyingly cheerful.” Brilliant satire. And check out the pharmaceutical industry guy—a fantastic characterization.
You’ve probably seen the little bouncing ball drug ad. But you may not have seen THIS version… “Zolift is not right for everyone, including humans and people.”
Fox News and Douglas Kennedy on the lies of Pharmaceutical Companies
Fox News Big Story with Douglas Kennedy on how Big Pharma leaves out the bad studies and downplays the nasty side effects of their highly addictive drugs.
A pink pill, and a yellow pill and a green pill — a musical parody from a therapist who was inspired, as he puts it, by his “experience as a therapist and the horrors that I’ve seen from psych drugs.”
FOX News and Douglas Kennedy: Lilly pays $1.42 billion in Zyprexa lawsuit
FOX News’ Douglas Kennedy reports how Eli Lilly’s greedy marketing efforts cost it in a $1.42 billion lawsuit.
Another great Zoloft ad parody, by MadTV.
Reckless Tortuga – Censorship PSA
A hilarious “PSA,” about censorship, with true information about the The Mothers Act issue.
Dr John Rengen Virapen, Whistleblower of the Psychopathic Pharmaceutical Industry, Speaks Out
Dr John Rengen Virapen is a former scientist who after 35 years of work in the pharmaceutical industry (Eli Lilly) has left it to warn the public of the nefarious dealings and motives of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Virtually every great Scientist, Philosopher, Composer, Inventor, World Leader…throughout history would have been labeled,( with multiple labels) were they alive today going through our school system. As a Educator and Lecturer, I find it sad indeed seeing beautiful inquisitive and rebellious minds being “medicated” to the point that we are creating classrooms filled with “modified students”
absorbing and spewing out information according to a “designed model”
of what an “typical” student should be.
Thank’s
Steeve
CCHR are an incredible group of people, not only in the USA but around the world. The work they are doing re psychotropic medications being used on children is incredible and gives so many children and parents hope. Lets all pray that one day their work will result in the stopping of our kids being used for profits by the big pharma companies who are peddling their life destroying drugs to children.
God gave John clear warning of this in Revelation 18:23
“And never again shall the light of a lamp shine in you, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall never be heard in you again; for your businessmen were the great and prominent men of the earth, and by your magic spells and poisonous charm all nations were led astray (seduced and deluded).” Revelation of John 18:23 – The Amplified Bible
The Greek word translated “magic spells and poisonous charm” is ‘Pharmakia’. Doesn’t the sound familiar? Yes it’s the same Greek word where we get Pharmaceutical and Medicine.
Did you know we have all got O.C.D, yes you did read that correctly. How many of you have to answer your phone when it rings and what happens when you try not to or can’t answer it? You get frustrated and the urge to answer it increases until eventually you answer it.The part of the mind that deals with behaviour and urges (subconscious mind)does not know the difference between a useful habit and a not so useful habit. So answering the phone all day is treated the same as the urge to wash your hands for example all the time. Sub conscious mind treats all habits the same (good and bad)because it has no intelligence and cannot see that one upsets you and one is helping you. I don’t call O.C.D a disorder, I call it in order because it’s very in order and there is nothing disordered about it. I don’t know if I’m allowed to promote myself through this site but I close down these nuisance behaviours on a daily basis and if you’ve been told your mentally ill or have O.C.D it’s no big deal to get rid of.
Many thanks Michael.
Praise God for the good work you do, thank-you!
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