Rape and sexual assault in UK mental health
More than 26,000 sexual abuse incidents over 5 years found in UK mental health facilities. 2,500 alleged incidents of sexual violence and misconduct AGAINST PATIENTS
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Electroconvulsive therapy side effects
Known side effects Psychiatry has been hesitant in providing a full account of possible side effects from electroconvulsive therapy and so they are given here.… Read More »Electroconvulsive therapy side effects
More and more off-label, criminal use of antipsychotics
Antipsychotic use is dramatically increasing and beyond psychosis symptoms The use of antipsychotics is rapidly increasing and most of it is ‘off-label’, non-approved use. The… Read More »More and more off-label, criminal use of antipsychotics
Warning on paroxetine withdrawal.
Where it had been promoted that withdrawal from paroxetene was safe and easy, in fact up to 7% of patients could experience withdrawal symptoms with some of these severe and prolonged.
Canada delays implementing assisted suicide for the mentally ill
Reported 18 Dec 2022, Leyland Cecco for The Guardian: Canada delays right to physician-assisted death for mentally ill people. Government Backdown This article reports on… Read More »Canada delays implementing assisted suicide for the mentally ill
Psychiatry defends 30 years of lies about depression
For more than 30 years, psychiatry has been complicit with pharmaceutical company marketing in forwarding the largest fraud in the history of medicine: the lie of the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression.
More on misuse of antipsychotics
Replacing antipsychotics with anticonvulsants as ‘chemical strait jackets’ In November 2022, the Washington Post reported on this disturbing trend in the United States in nursing… Read More »More on misuse of antipsychotics
Another ECT myth debunked, again
A 2022 study finds no protection against suicide 30 days after ECT treatment and worse, a 30% increased risk of suicide in the following year.… Read More »Another ECT myth debunked, again
ECT psychs aren’t telling patients the truth
ECT psychiatrists and device manufacturers aren’t telling patients the truth about ECT side effects and this is now resulting in legal consequences Still pushing marketing over science
And just how is psychiatry improving mental health?
An examination of two countries that are among the highest psychiatric drug use per capita in the world finds that both have long statistical trends… Read More »And just how is psychiatry improving mental health?
Psychiatry’s DSM – just a bunch of opinions
Psychiatry’s influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is based on the consensus of opinions of a small number of American Psychiatric Association psychiatrists,… Read More »Psychiatry’s DSM – just a bunch of opinions
Danish study finds the more psychiatric treatment, the greater risk of suicide
Despite attempts to explain away shocking outcomes, the bottom line is that persons receiving psychiatric interventions were found to more likely commit suicide The risk… Read More »Danish study finds the more psychiatric treatment, the greater risk of suicide