Astonishing, poor psychiatric treatment of Australian veterans
Australian veterans subjected to potentially debilitating psych and other drug cocktails. It is not known what the complete combined side effects of these are.
Patient Abuse
Multiple, concurrent psychotropics prescribed for children increasing in the USA
A recent study of almost 127,000 youths who were subject to Medicaid from a single US state found from 2015 to 2020 the rate of psychotropic polypharmacy had increased to 4.6% – affecting more than 5,800 individuals.
Rethinking Antidepressant Medications for Children and Adolescents: Safety and Efficacy
If we followed science and safety, antidepressant drugs for anyone under the age of 24 would have never been approved.
New ECT Research and Litigation Opportunities – Life After ECT News (2024)
Share Your Experience with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and information on litigation opportunities.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Depression
A new study published by UK researchers suggests that the long-standing and widely-accepted idea that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance and low serotonin… Read More »The Chemical Imbalance Myth of Depression
3. Psychiatry’s lack of science masked by pharmaceuticals
The chance ‘discovery’ of psychotropic drugs saved psychiatry from oblivion by masking the subject’s lack of scientific foundation.
1. The beginning of ‘modern’ psychiatry – a descent into hell
We find a subject based on speculation, unable to establish causes of mental illness and whose primary solution is to murder the very people it should be caring for.
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.