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Citizens Commission on Human Rights UK, established in 1969 to raise awareness of human rights in the field of mental health. - [email protected] - 01342 313926

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The membership body for #psychiatrists in the UK, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, consistently calls for action to be taken to reverse rising rates of mental illness. It is a call that's consistently accompanied by a demand for more taxpayer funding. But if psychiatrists were

The membership body for #psychiatrists in the UK, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, consistently calls for action to be taken to reverse rising rates of mental illness. It is a call that's consistently accompanied by a demand for more taxpayer funding. But if psychiatrists were
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If you were to collide with someone and potentially hurt the other person during the impact, being a good person, you would apologise and do all you could to check the person was okay after being on the other end of the impact. But when psychiatrists "collide" with a person

If you were to collide with someone and potentially hurt the other person during the impact, being a good person, you would apologise and do all you could to check the person was okay after being on the other end of the impact. 

But when psychiatrists "collide" with a person
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It's a perverse marketing triumph that #psychiatrists are handsomely paid by taxpayers to detain, restrain and consequently harm people when purporting to "treat" them. Psychiatric "treatments" are paradoxical. Raising the temperature of the brain with high-voltage electricity

It's a perverse marketing triumph that #psychiatrists are handsomely paid by taxpayers to detain, restrain and consequently harm people when purporting to "treat" them.

Psychiatric "treatments" are paradoxical. Raising the temperature of the brain with high-voltage electricity
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Many people may not realise mind-altering #psychiatric drugs, which are heavily pushed by prescribers, especially psychiatrists, do nothing more than mask problems while also causing iatrogenic illness. The process of chemically masking personal turmoil and upsets experienced

Many people may not realise mind-altering #psychiatric drugs, which are heavily pushed by prescribers, especially psychiatrists, do nothing more than mask problems while also causing iatrogenic illness. 

The process of chemically masking personal turmoil and upsets experienced
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Through their dismissive and condescending attitudes, psychiatrists consistently demonstrate their inability to understand the lived experience of someone in distress. Whatever the difficulties are or whatever the mental trauma is that's upsetting someone, psychiatrists

Through their dismissive and condescending attitudes, psychiatrists consistently demonstrate their inability to understand the lived experience of someone in distress. 

Whatever the difficulties are or whatever the mental trauma is that's upsetting someone, psychiatrists
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A question was asked of a psychiatrist outside of a #psychiatry conference venue: "Doctor, how many patients have you cured?" Answer: "Well, cured, yes... I can't claim that I have cured many patients. I think cure in psychiatry is... a very high ambition." #mentalhealth

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The amount of electricity used in #ECT goes up as patients get older and after they have been shocked more and more times. Modern ECT practice uses paralysing drugs to prevent violent convulsions that could otherwise break teeth and bones. But these drugs also increase the

The amount of electricity used in #ECT goes up as patients get older and after they have been shocked more and more times. 

Modern ECT practice uses paralysing drugs to prevent violent convulsions that could otherwise break teeth and bones. But these drugs also increase the
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Psychiatrists claim the #ECT procedure is "new and improved" and that it’s "safer", but that’s just marketing hype. The anaesthetics and paralysing drugs used can make ECT appear less barbaric but that’s only for the benefit of the person observing the procedure. Despite scans

Psychiatrists claim the #ECT procedure is "new and improved" and that it’s "safer", but that’s just marketing hype. The anaesthetics and paralysing drugs used can make ECT appear less barbaric but that’s only for the benefit of the person observing the procedure.

Despite scans
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When a person takes their own life while on prescribed psychiatric drugs like #antidepressants, psychiatrists habitually blame the person's mental troubles. They consistently fail to accept responsibility for the catastrophic failures while also failing to acknowledge the

When a person takes their own life while on prescribed psychiatric drugs like #antidepressants, psychiatrists habitually blame the person's mental troubles. 

They consistently fail to accept responsibility for the catastrophic failures while also failing to acknowledge the
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Psychiatrists are a different breed from regular doctors who practice regular medicine. Despite knowing the harm being caused, psychiatrists perversely justify their actions after forcing electricity through a sensitive organ like the brain when using electroconvulsive therapy or

Psychiatrists are a different breed from regular doctors who practice regular medicine. Despite knowing the harm being caused, psychiatrists perversely justify their actions after forcing electricity through a sensitive organ like the brain when using electroconvulsive therapy or
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Sometimes, a message has to be repeated many times before it is truly understood. This is one of them. #mentalhealth #psychiatry #ECT #prescribedharm #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatric

Sometimes, a message has to be repeated many times before it is truly understood. This is one of them. #mentalhealth #psychiatry #ECT #prescribedharm #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatric
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When psychiatric services are scrutinised following catastrophic failures, psychiatrists get anxious about culpability and accountability. And so they should. Investigations consistently reference "poor care", "inadequate care" or "no care" at all. The Lampard Inquiry, which is

When psychiatric services are scrutinised following catastrophic failures, psychiatrists get anxious about culpability and accountability. And so they should. Investigations consistently reference "poor care", "inadequate care" or "no care" at all. The Lampard Inquiry, which is
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If the psychiatric industry tried to market electroshock (#ECT) today as 'treatment', it would be rejected under the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 on the basis that it can cause serious harm to the recipient, harm such as brain damage, organ failure and memory loss. The fact

If the psychiatric industry tried to market electroshock (#ECT) today as 'treatment', it would be rejected under the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 on the basis that it can cause serious harm to the recipient, harm such as brain damage, organ failure and memory loss.

The fact
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In medicine, a condition is only labelled a disease after it has met strict standards: you have to isolate a predictable group of symptoms, be able to locate the cause of the symptoms or see how they function. This must all be proven and established by a physical test such as a

In medicine, a condition is only labelled a disease after it has met strict standards: you have to isolate a predictable group of symptoms, be able to locate the cause of the symptoms or see how they function. This must all be proven and established by a physical test such as a
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The Lampard Inquiry reconvened in London today. It's an inquiry investigating the deaths of thousands of inpatients in Essex mental units. Yes, that's thousands of inpatients. In situations like this, lamenting psychiatric narratives consistently call for more Government

The Lampard Inquiry reconvened in London today. It's an inquiry investigating the deaths of thousands of inpatients in Essex mental units. Yes, that's thousands of inpatients.

In situations like this, lamenting psychiatric narratives consistently call for more Government
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What is the sense of prescribing a senior citizen a traquilliser that is more lethal and harder to withdraw from than heroin, one that leads to a 45% increase in the risk of having a car accident within seven days of taking it? Why give them an #antidepressant that could

What is the sense of prescribing a senior citizen a traquilliser that is more lethal and harder to withdraw from than heroin, one that leads to a 45% increase in the risk of having a car accident within seven days of taking it? 

Why give them an #antidepressant that could
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The drugging of elderly people is not the only legacy of psychiatric interference in the care of senior citizens. Indiscriminate use of violent restraints and electroshock, also known as #ECT, on the elderly is also responsible for needless suffering. While psychiatrists openly

The drugging of elderly people is not the only legacy of psychiatric interference in the care of senior citizens. Indiscriminate use of violent restraints and electroshock, also known as #ECT, on the elderly is also responsible for needless suffering.

While psychiatrists openly
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Psychiatry is a human rights abuse. When patients are attempting to give informed consent before being shocked by a psychiatrist using #ECT, the information they are given should include that the procedure can cause strokes, brain damage, memory loss and even death. But

Psychiatry is a human rights abuse.

When patients are attempting to give informed consent before being shocked by a psychiatrist using #ECT, the information they are given should include that the procedure can cause strokes, brain damage, memory loss and even death. 

But
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Psychiatric diagnoses are diagnoses by confession. The emotional states of people are evaluated on the basis of what they say and/or what they do. This means there are no objective biological markers to establish the presence of any mental "disorders" so the "science" is purely

Psychiatric diagnoses are diagnoses by confession. The emotional states of people are evaluated on the basis of what they say and/or what they do. 

This means there are no objective biological markers to establish the presence of any mental "disorders" so the "science" is purely