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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

Electroconvulsive therapy side effects

Psychiatry has been hesitant to provide a full account of possible side effects from electroconvulsive therapy and so they are given here.

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.

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

Canadian government backing down on assisted suicide for the mentally ill apparently due to public outcry on the subject.

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

The Washington Post report found that government attempts to ban to indiscriminate use of antipsychotics for elderly dementia patients had resulted in their use being replaced by anticonvulsant medications that could be used for the treatment of epilepsy.

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.

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 of increased suicides.

Psychiatry’s DSM – just a bunch of opinions

Psychiatry’s influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is only based on the consensus of opinions of a small number of American Psychiatric Association psychiatrists, rather than science.

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