Patient Abuse

Restraints & Solitary Confinement

Mental American Monster “In this part of the true horror, Mental American Monster The Sprawl of American Psychiatry, nineteenth century justifications of the use of… Read More »Restraints & Solitary Confinement

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

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

Cause of Death: Unknown – Big Pharma & the selling of mental illness

Award winning doc exposing the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry and how it created an epidemic of mental illness.

Antipsychotics – a horrible replacement for even worse alternatives

When the first antipsychotic, chlorpromazine, emerged in the 1950s it was gleefully described by psychiatrists as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ – as though this was something to aim for.

Akathisia – side effects of psychiatric drugs

An image of a person suffering from akatisia

“It may be less of a question of patients experiencing fluoxetine-induced suicidal ideation than patients feeling that ‘death is a welcome result’ when the acutely discomforting symptoms of akathisia are experienced on top of already distressing…

Rape and sexual assault by psychiatrists

“In every house where I come, I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women and men.”

ECT: Is this the best you can do?

It is estimated that the use of ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) in the USA alone provides around 1.8 billion dollars in annual income to psychiatry. It is big business and that business is being protected.

The lunacy of lobotomy

Walter Freedman (left) with James Watts avidly promoted and performed lobotomies in the United States, leaving behind tens of thousands of victims.

If any activity in psychiatry conjures up pictures of lunatic psychiatrists running around performing sadistic human experimentation on terrified patients, it is lobotomy.

Psychiatric drugs: Australia, what are they doing to your children?

A child collasped with psychiatric drugs

Psychiatric drug prescribing for children is markedly increasing An Australian study regarding psychiatric drug prescribing for children found significant increases in all classes of psychotropic… Read More »Psychiatric drugs: Australia, what are they doing to your children?

Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope

Slippery slope? In the debates regarding euthanasia, you hear a lot about the “slippery slope”. Simply, this is where small steps are taken, and often… Read More »Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope

Michelle Himes v Somatics llc – suit against ECT machine manufacturer

Anna is a childhood psychiatric drug and a teenage electroshock survivor. She founded Life After ECT to ensure people injured by electroconvulsive therapy have easy access to resources that can help them understand their injuries and find a path to recovery.