
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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When a person hurts or damages another they usually apologise & try to make good any damage.
When psychiatrists torture a person with #ECT & cause brain damage, they consider the person treatment-resistant or blame the person's mental troubles rather than admit criminal assault.
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A Channel 4 documentary, and particularly the reactions to is, revealed that ADHD is a bluff. The emperor is naked. You cannot “have” ADHD, ADHD cannot “cause” or “explain” anything, it is just a name for certain behaviours many of us have, it is not a “neurodevelopmental disorder,” and the latest fad where people say, “I am neurodiverse!”, is bullshit because neurodiversity only means that we are all different, unless we are identical twins.
"NOBODY is warned about these dangerous SSRI withdrawal effects, or held accountable for the harm they cause.
If you drive a car with a minor defect, you get fined for putting others safety at risk and have to take it off the road. Someone in a pub fight throws a punch, they go to jail for hurting someone. The dangers these drugs pose - crickets!"
When I stopped 50mg of sertraline, the worst withdrawal symptom I had was the constant intrusive suicidal and (very dark) revenge thoughts and urges. I’d never had them before or while I was taking it, only when I stopped it.
They played over and over like a video stuck on repeat. They were vivid, and loud like my internal thoughts had been turned up to full volume. I had nightmares about the same things, and they were loud too.
It took every ounce of strength I had to fight them and I barely left the house. Nothing I did would stop them, and I tried so hard.
4 months of constant internal torture and terror like nothing I’ve ever experienced.
No one should EVER have to go through torture like that.
I’m sure many have experienced the exact same thing but lost the fight and are either dead or sitting in jail.
NOBODY is warned about these dangerous SSRI withdrawal effects, or held accountable for the harm they cause.
If you drive a car with a minor defect, you get fined for putting others safety at risk and have to take it off the road. Someone in a pub fight throws a punch, they go to jail for hurting someone. The dangers these drugs pose - crickets!
It’s criminal.
#SSRI #MentalHealth
Psychiatrists focus on the natural fears, uncertainties, insecurities, and stresses experienced by individuals in their everyday lives.
These normal reactions to abnormal conditions fall into the psychiatric melting pot where they are misinterpreted and redefined before being categorised as so-called mental illnesses requiring "treatment."
For an industry that claims to have mental health as its focus, negative narratives from the psychiatric fraternity are indicative of an industry more interested in the discovery and continuation of mental illness.
It represents a dwindling spiral for many unsuspecting citizens who turned to mental health services for help but who then found themselves involuntarily detained, forcibly treated with mind-altering drugs and turned into patients for life. It's inhumane and it's criminal.
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #mentalhealthawareness #psychiatry #psychiatrist
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“Lessons learned” has become TEWV’s comfort blanket.
But patients and families say the lessons are still not being learned.
That is why a statutory public inquiry now exists. @YvetteCooperMP
#TEWV #Inquiry #Accountability
FDA Again Lags Behind UK on Antidepressant Warnings for Suicide Risk and Persistent Sexual Dysfunction —The UK’s drug regulatory agency has expanded suicide risk information to all ages and formally recognizes antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction.
The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced new antidepressant safety measures for all patients. The changes follow a review prompted by concerns from patients and families and require clearer suicide risk information for patients of all ages—currently limited to children and young adults. For the first time, the measures also recognize that sexual dysfunction, known as Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), can occur from certain antidepressants and can continue even after the drugs are stopped. Notably, the MHRA has again acted before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA must issue the same warnings.
In December 2003, the MHRA was the first to issue warnings that SSRI antidepressants increased suicide and self-harm risk in young people, brought to their attention by Dr. David Healy, professor of psychiatry at Bangor University in the UK. The FDA had relevant data for decades.
In October 2004, almost a year after the MHRA’s warning, the FDA added a black-box warning for suicidal ideation in those 18 and younger, later extended to age 24. This left the implication that the risk ends on a person’s 25th birthday.[6]
Dr. Healy, also an expert psychopharmacologist, warned in 2009 that “antidepressants pose a risk of suicide in all age groups,” citing elevated relative risks for completed suicide in ages 18–64 based on FDA trial data. More>> cchrint.org/2026/10/23/fda-a…
There's lots of crystal balling in psychiatry. There are copious amounts of pontificating, guesswork, opinions, suppositions, conjecture, theories, speculation, assumptions, beliefs, presumptions and so on but there's no science.
Definitely no science. Just to confirm that - no science.
#mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #nosciencenocures
Sure, prescription drugs must go through clinical trials and laboratory testing before receiving regulatory approval and a marketing license.
But when it comes to psychiatric prescription drugs, there's another perverse dimension. Kim Witczak, a Drug Safety Advocate from the US, summed it up perfectly:
"The public has no idea that they're the real clinical trial."
#MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #prescribedharm
Watch: cchr.org/prescription-for-vi…
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Tucker Carlson asked the question you're "not allowed" to ask: why do so many school shooters turn out to be on psych drugs?
His guest's answer: no conspiracy theory needed. It's printed on the drug labels. Stimulants, antipsychotics like Abilify and antidepressants all list aggression as a side effect.
"If you're putting like 15% of the population on these drugs, rare side effects are going to happen." 🧵
Psychiatry is full of lots of things but it's not full of positive, optimistic outcomes. Psychiatrists theorise, pontificate, speculate, assume, presume, believe and guess their way through their "work" when labelling and drugging people.
They focus on the natural fears, uncertainties, insecurities, and stresses experienced by people in their everyday lives. Normal human reactions are consistently misinterpreted by psychiatrists, redefined and then categorised as so-called mental illnesses requiring "treatment."
But for an industry that purports to focus on mental health, the negative narratives are indicative of an industry that's more interested in the discovery and continuation of mental disturbance and mental illness.
It represents a dwindling spiral for unsuspecting people who turned to psychiatry for help but who then found themselves trapped by coercive practices, detained and forcibly treated with mind-altering drugs.
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #mentalhealthawareness #psychiatry #psychiatrist
Private providers are profiting from what is essentially the modern Emperor's New Clothes, selling expensive, assembly-line diagnoses that have no scientific basis.
#ADHD #psychiatry #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness
Over half of all NHS-funded ADHD assessments and a third of autism assessments are now carried out by private providers.
Private providers are profiting from the expansion of ADHD and autism diagnosis, @utafrith @naomicfisher
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Psychiatrists know their prescribed drugs can cause akathisia. Yet they rarely warn patients that this might occur as a side effect of their prescribing habits.
Akathisia literally translates to "inability to sit" or "not to sit" in Ancient Greek. It is a movement disorder that makes it impossible to sit or remain still due to an intense inner restlessness. It is an internal torment that, at its worst, makes life so torturous that, in the words of one pharmaceutical executive, "Death is a welcome result."
Watch the documentary Prescription for Violence to find out more: cchr.org/prescription-for-vi…
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #akathisia #MentalHealthAwareness #psychiatry #psychiatrist
It cannot be denied that some people experience mental difficulties which are sometimes very serious, but one of the main default "solutions" to those difficulties is nothing short of chemical restraint coupled with psychiatric guesswork that does nothing to address the real cause of the disturbance.
Mind-altering psychiatric drugs are being used to mask personal problems. The process of chemically masking turmoil can give the wrong impression, making a patient, their family and friends think the prescribed drugs are working. What has actually happened is the patient has been chemically restrained and is manifesting the natural response of the body to the introduction of a foreign substance that's confusing its normal functions.
When the chemical restraint isn't achieved, the answer is to up the dose or change the mind-altering drug until the person isn't able to function, and to then hail those "results" as being demonstrably effective. But it's all smoke and mirrors. These people have been drugged, sedated, tranquilised and knocked out. It's inhumane and making people into patients for life.
#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #psychiatry #mentalhealthmatters
There's an expectation that psychiatrists understand mental disturbance and know how to treat it. There's an expectation that psychiatric treatments work. There's also an expectation that psychiatrists are competent in their field.
However, each of these expectations are questioned and vigorously challenged when the effects of psychiatric treatment are exposed and when psychiatric abuse is uncovered. Expectations are even thrown in the bin when public inquiries like the Nottingham Inquiry reveal astonishing decisions, astonishing excuses and abject psychiatric failures that resulted in catastrophic outcomes that were avoidable.
Routine mantras used by Mental Health Trusts in mitigation regularly accepted in courts, allow psychiatrists and their employers to avoid responsibility, accountability and culpability. It's a travesty of justice.
#mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #psychiatry #mentalhealthawareness
While psychiatrists and other prescribers make claims that benefits of antidepressants outweigh the risks, these same people have a fundamental and legal duty to ensure patients are fully informed. It's called informed consent.
How many of these prescribers ensure their patients know the side effects of antidepressants? Do they take the time to make sure patients are informed? Do patients take the time to read Patient Information Leaflets? Are the Patient Information Leaflets readable and understandable for a non-medical person?
SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor):
▪️insomnia
▪️ejaculation problems
▪️nausea
▪️weakness
▪️headache
▪️diarrhoea
▪️loss of appetite
▪️drowsiness
▪️anxiety
▪️nervousness
▪️shakiness (tremors)
▪️dry mouth
▪️decreased sex drive
▪️yawning
▪️indigestion
▪️dizziness
▪️sweating
▪️impotence
▪️fatigue
▪️slow heartbeat
▪️rapid heartbeat
▪️neck/jaw pain
▪️flu-like symptoms
▪️all over body pain
▪️hot flashes
▪️pins and needles feeling in head/extremities
▪️weight gain
▪️abdominal pain
▪️tiredness/lack of energy
▪️numbness
▪️emotional numbness
▪️irritability
▪️suicide
▪️akathisia (uncontrollable limb and body movements, severe restlessness)
SNRIs (Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor):
▪️abnormal dreams
▪️anxiety or nervousness
▪️body weakness
▪️chills
▪️cough
▪️dizziness
▪️drowsiness
▪️fatigue or weakness
▪️headache
▪️high blood pressure (hypertension)
▪️increased sweating
▪️insomnia
▪️loss of appetite or weight loss
▪️nausea
▪️vomiting
▪️indigestion
▪️diarrhoea or constipation
▪️ejaculation problems
▪️impotence (erectile dysfunction or ED)
▪️orgasm problems in women
▪️shakiness (tremors)
▪️suicide
▪️vision changes
▪️sexual problems including decreased sex drive (libido)
#mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #SSRIs #PSSD
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With millions of people taking psychiatric drugs, it's clear not everyone will experience violent or suicidal reactions when taking them. But what drug regulatory agency warnings confirm, is that a percentage of the population will.
Of nearly 410 psychiatric drug warnings, 27 warned of violence, aggression, hostility, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation; 49 warned of self-harm or suicide/suicidal ideation; 17 were for addiction or withdrawal effects; and 27 were linked to Serotonin Syndrome found in antidepressant use and marked by symptoms that include agitation, restlessness and confusion.
Professor David Healy a leading psychopharmacology expert and Professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales said, “Violence and other potentially criminal behaviour caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret.”
#MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealth #psychiatry #psychiatrist #antidepressants #prescribedharm #SSRIs
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When it comes to psychiatry, there's no resolution, only containment. Psychiatrists admit they don't do cures. Their business model is based on restraint techniques, chemical and mechanical.
So when things go wrong, psychiatrists never look in the mirror. Instead, they point the finger at anyone other than themselves for the failings, especially their patients.
They coercively control, hurt and physically damage patients using #ECT and/or prescribed drugs, but they don't apologise and they don't repair the damage inflicted. Instead, they make it worse, labelling patients as treatment-resistant and blaming their mental troubles rather than scrutinising the liabilities of their prescribing habits.
Psychiatric propaganda is all about mitigating failures. But when observing psychiatry in practice, the coercion becomes clear, along with the assault which is happening in plain sight.
#mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatry #mentalhealthawareness
There's an assumption that just because a person has been given anaesthetic and paralysing drugs prior to being electroshocked, that something therapeutic will happen.
With that in mind, consider this: The psychiatrist pressing the shock button on the ECT device is doing so to induce a grand mal seizure.
The anaesthetic and paralysing drugs administered prior to electroshock act to raise the seizure threshold which means more electricity is required to achieve the grand mal seizure.
Assaulting the brain in this way causes brain damage. Psychiatrists attempt to justify and mitigate their actions but brain damage is inflicted regardless of the conscious state of the patient. It's criminal assault.
#ECT #electroshock #mentalhealth #psychiatry #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness
The UK drug regulator, the MHRA, has published a document titled, "Antidepressants: new safety measures for all patients to improve communication of the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours and persistent sexual dysfunction."
New safety measures are being implemented to improve how the risks of suicidal thoughts and behaviours and persistent sexual dysfunction are communicated to patients taking antidepressants.
The term post SSRI sexual dysfunction (“PSSD”) is also being added to the Patient Information Leaflet for antidepressants associated with a risk of sexual dysfunction that may continue even after the drug is stopped.
#PSSD #mentalhealth #antidepressants #MHRA
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I am sick and tired of hearing the same thing over and over again.
More deaths. More warnings. More investigations. More promises that lessons will be learned.
WHEN WILL ENOUGH BE ENOUGH?
My son Matthew died in 2012. Fourteen years later, we have a statutory public inquiry examining thousands of deaths, and STILL we are hearing about rising inpatient fatalities and the need for urgent action.
How many more families must bury their loved ones? How many more warnings must be issued before those responsible are held properly accountable?
These are not statistics. They are people’s children, parents, partners and loved ones.
I have spent almost 14 years fighting for answers, accountability and change.
I am sick of hearing what trusts SHOULD be doing. I want to see what they ARE doing to stop people dying.
And above all, I want to see accountability when they fail.
#LampardInquiry #MatthewsCampaign #MentalHealth #PatientSafety #Accountability
NEW: A trust already facing a major inquiry into over 2,000 deaths has been told to act on a rise in inpatient fatalities
The rise at @EPUTNHS is recorded in Essex ICB's quality summary for the second quarter (July to September)
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