CCHR Urges Mental Health Month Oversight of Elderly Being Electroshocked
In the third in a series of articles to raise awareness about psychiatric abuse during mental health month, watchdog wants the cruelty of electroshocking the…
Mental Health Month is Time to End Drug and Electroshock Use in Children
6.1 million children and teens, some as young as one, prescribed psychotropic drugs, children 5 or younger electroshocked, and teens dying from restraints in behavioral…
94% of States Fail in Protecting Troubled Youths in Behavioral Centers
CCHR acknowledges media as inadvertent watchdogs that can influence legislators to enact protections against increasing incidents of sexual and restraint abuse of teens in psychiatric…
CCHR Supports 22-Year-Old’s Plea to Stop Enforced Electroshock Treatment
A young Minnesota adult is fighting against court-ordered brain-damaging electroshock treatment being forced on him. CCHR cites UN reports that say involuntary ECT constitutes torture….
American Psychiatric Association’s “Apology” For Harming African Americans & People of Color Rejected as Disingenuous; Smacks of Vested Interests
The APA’s apology on January 18, 2021 for decades of psychiatry’s racist harm comes when “mental health” research funds are now available to study the…