Official CCHR International— Non-profit Mental Health Industry Watchdog that has helped enact 190 laws protecting patients from abuse.

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Alberta court just signed off on a $7.5m Paxil birth-defect payout. - GSK still won’t say the drug did it. - Lawyers still take their cut. - The kids still have the defects. - Same old Paxil routine. - Settle. Deny. Move on. If the evidence was that weak, they wouldn’t keep writing the cheques. canadianlawyermag.com/practi…
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If only the FDA had acted in the public interest rather than the psycho- pharmaceutical interests when they knew the damage these drugs cause... more than 30 years ago
I often wonder how different the SSRI antidepressant story might have been if the @FDA had acted differently in 1991. At the time of the 1991 FDA hearing on the emergence of suicide and violence with antidepressants, Prozac had the HIGHEST number of adverse-event reports submitted to the FDA’s National Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting System, according to Alan Gelberg, then Acting Chief of the Surveillance and Data Processing Branch at CDER. Then listen to the conflict-of-interest waivers read at the beginning of the hearing for committee members with financial ties involving antidepressant manufacturers. 😳 The advisory committee ultimately voted unanimously, 10-0, that the evidence did not support a conclusion that antidepressants caused the emergence or intensification of suicidality or violent behavior. I still wonder if they listened to the families who came forward and told their stories during the open public hearing. WHAT IF the FDA did their job and had required warnings in 1991? WHAT IF doctors and patients had been alerted to these potential serious harms from the beginning? Would antidepressants have been prescribed so freely over the next 35 years? We’ll never know. But here we are today, 35 years later, living with the consequences of an overmedicalized culture and decades of widespread antidepressant prescribing. Watch the conflict-of-interest waivers and the final vote from the 1991 FDA hearing. 👇
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Imagine teaching an entire generation that discomfort is a disease before they're old enough to tie their shoes. Then act surprised when they can't handle adulthood.
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piped.video/Om2J9g-ssKo?is=flsM… Look at the financial conflicts of the 1991 FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs advisory committee members at the end of video. Majority had ties to makers of antidepressant products. There was no voice representing the public on this committee then. Fast forward, I spent the last 9 years as consumer Rep on this same committee. I was often only NO vote.
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All young women who are considering taking an antidepressant should be shown this graph, and informed about the pregnancy complications associated with taking antidepressants.
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"And for some people, man, it's doing this weird thing where it doesn't just kill their sexual feeling, like they no longer orgasm, but they don't have any sexual desire anymore, like ever." @joerogan once again mentions the speech by PSSD sufferer Lauren Friedman (@lololizzle).
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There's only one true mental disorder: the compulsive need to classify everybody that you find different, weird, disturbing, unpleasant, or difficult - and to derive some kind of perverse satisfaction when you find just the right label.
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ADHD drugs are handed out like candy when the FDA requires a black box warning for addiction—even when taken as prescribed and the US DEA classifies them as Schedule II drugs with a “high potential for abuse”— in the same category as OxyContin and fentanyl.
Record high ADHD pill prescriptions: Number of adults on the pills rises by 41,000 in just three months - as tablets are linked to deadly side effect trib.al/L4d4sge
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Ban Coercive Psychiatric Practices and Abuse Global health and human rights agencies—including the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO)—report that coercion and human rights abuses remain entrenched in mental health systems worldwide. Both have called for the abolition of such practices. Coercive psychiatric practices include involuntary hospitalization, forced drugging, electroshock, seclusion, and physical, chemical, and mechanical restraints. The WHO warns that coercion “can inflict severe pain and suffering…with long-lasting physical and mental health consequences,” leading to “substantial trauma and even death,” and that these practices “violate the right to be protected from torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.” Urgent Changes and Abolition Measures Needed: • Abolish all coercive practices, including involuntary hospitalization and forced treatment. • Eliminate financial incentives that support institutionalization and coercion. • Ban forced drugging and community treatment orders, which violate fundamental rights. • Replace forced interventions like drugging, electroshock, and psychosurgery with fully informed consent-based approaches, guaranteeing the right to refuse treatment. • Reject the biomedical model approach to mental health. • Shift from pharmaceutical and neurobiological dominance toward rights-based models of care. • Mandate legislation that prohibits all involuntary measures and requires non-coercive responses in all mental health services. • Respect advance directives (Psychiatric Living Wills), ensuring people can refuse psychiatric interventions during a crisis. • Ensure accountability by enforcing penalties for violations, • Guarantee access to justice, including the right to file complaints, challenge abuses, enforce rights, and prosecute or penalize those responsible for abuse and coercion, along with providing civil, administrative, or criminal sanctions and compensation. “All persons should be able to exercise their right to give free and informed consent to accept or reject treatment in mental health systems. Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices, and institutionalization must end.” – World Health Organization Ultimately, all forced treatment, especially electroshock, psychosurgery and other damaging brain-intervention treatments must be banned. In 2025, at the United Nations’ global human rights epicenter in Geneva, CCHR International addressed a UN committee, calling for the abolition of electroshock and forced drugging—especially of children—while citing governments’ failure to enforce strong penalties against those responsible for such abuse.
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Psychiatry is not medicine. Medicine treats bodies that can be injured, infected, or scanned. Psychiatry treats conduct, speech, and suffering by renaming them disease. There is no lesion that proves schizophrenia the way a tumor proves cancer. There is no assay that locates depression in tissue. What gets called mental illness is conflict, despair, defiance, and behavior other people refuse to tolerate. Diagnosis is a verdict, not a discovery. Once the label sticks, in many situations, the person can be confined, drugged, and stripped of standing while the institution calls the process care. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz named the fraud: problems in living recast as medical facts so the state and the clinic can manage the inconvenient. Coercion dressed as treatment is still coercion. If your liberty hangs on a doctor's opinion of your thoughts, you do not have liberty. Refuse the vocabulary. Demand a body of evidence or demand that they stop pretending.
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The foundation of the psychiatric industrial complex is built on lies, manipulation, fraud and systematic deception. Its a house of cards and its crumbling. The voices of harmed patients are being heard. The tidal wave is coming. Be on the right side of history
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Welcome to the world of psychiatry— diagnosis by opinion and drugs by "trial and error"
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“All psychiatrists have in common that when they are caught on camera or on microphone, they cower and admit that there are no such things as chemical imbalances/diseases, or examinations or tests for them. What they do in practice, lying in every instance, abrogating [revoking] the informed consent right of every patient and poisoning them in the name of ‘treatment’ is nothing short of criminal.” – Dr. Fred Baughman Jr., pediatric neurologist
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Controversial treatment still used on 2,500 Brits a year as survivor says it 'felt like rape' - Electroshock therapy is still being used on around 2,500 people a year in the UK, but a huge new survey of patients worldwide has reignited fears over consent and memory loss dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-…
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You cant start and stop psychiatric drugs and be ok. They are not correcting a chemical imbalance.. They are inducing one The best response you could get is sedation, numbness and metabolic disease The most tragic is akathisia, psychosis, suicide and homicide
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The hearing on Prozac held in 1991 was not just on SSRIs causing suicide, but also violence towards others. Look at the conflicts of interest of the FDA panel voting on whether to warn the public at the end of the video.
Back in 1991 the FDA held a hearing into the first SSRI (Prozac) causing suicidal ideation & did nothing. This is CCHR’s footage of that hearing. It took the FDA another 13 years to issue the black box on all SSRIs. Note the 1991 FDA panels pharma conflicts towards end of video
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ADHD UK, the 'charity' that orchestrated 9,656 complaints against C4s 'The Great ADHD Myth' documentary, has an explicit commercial relationship with ADHD 360, a major private provider of ADHD assessment, diagnosis and treatment. adhdthefacts.com/post/the-mo…
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The mental health industry’s incompetence is on full display— In the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, a forensic psychologist called as an expert on criminal responsibility—tasked with evaluating her mental state while she was on a cocktail of psychiatric drugs—admitted on the stand he had never even heard of akathisia (a severe drug-induced inner restlessness that can drive people to suicide or violence), one of the most common and dangerous side effects of the antipsychotics prescribed to her. Asked what it was, he replied, “I’d have to look it up.” How does someone claim to assess a mind shaped by those drugs without knowing what the drugs can do to it? A simple Google search for “main side effects of antipsychotics” brings up akathisia immediately. This level of ignorance is how the industry operates. Psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts claimed the FDA’s black-box warning on antidepressants and suicidal ideation applied only to children—when it covers adults through age 24. Common sense dictates the risk does not vanish the day after a patient’s 25th birthday. Psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta apparently couldn’t be bothered to look up that insomnia is a primary side effect of Zoloft; instead she treated Clancy’s 48 hours without sleep as “unusual” evidence of bipolar disorder and added the antipsychotic Seroquel. This wasn’t science — it was a marketing campaign that rebrands SSRI side effects as a new disease, a practice exposed in a $1.4 billion settlement over related off-label promotion. Sejal Shah A Harvard-affiliated psychiatrist still repeated the long-debunked marketing campaign that SSRIs correct a “chemical imbalance” or “lack of serotonin”—apparently never having gotten the memo that this theory was debunked years ago (and which psychiatrists claim they don’t use anymore). This level of ignorance and incompetence is not rare. It is mainstream psychiatry and the mental health industry being exposed for what they are.
“What is akathisia” “A K A S T H E S I A” “Ya I guess I would have to look that up”
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The Lindsay Clancy case is not an outlier. It is a window into how psychiatry actually operates. Psychiatrists are downplaying the polypharmacy of the 13 different psychiatric drugs prescribed to Lindsay Clancy in just four months, claiming most were “low-dose” and rarely taken all at once. This is an attempt to blunt the public’s reaction to the sheer number of drugs she was given once that information became public. The defense is typical of mainstream psychiatry: ignore the FDA-documented psychological and physical effects of these drugs and the profession’s own minimal standards—standards it routinely fails to meet. For example, the 2026 American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) task force—one of the main U.S. organizations psychiatrists are supposed to rely on for the practice of psychopharmacology—states clinicians should begin with monotherapy and that “every time you add a medication, you should stop a medication.” Even Stahl’s Prescriber’s Guide—a practical handbook doctors are supposed to use to switch psychiatric drugs—requires accounting for residual activity and half-lives. That means the doctor must factor in how much of the old drug is still affecting the brain so the patient is not exposed to overlapping or conflicting drug effects, unexpected side effects, or withdrawal while the new drug is being introduced. These are the low bars psychiatry sets for itself. In the Clancy case, even these lowest of bars were ignored. Current FDA labeling and clinical guidelines have long recognized that even low-dose psychiatric drugs can require weeks—or longer—to taper and clear, leaving residual effects that continue to act on the brain. In reality, “weeks” is often not long enough. The fact that HHS and SAMHSA are now developing new clinical guidance and training on tapering and deprescribing only confirms what has been known for years: residual effects from these drugs can persist well beyond a few weeks, and current practice has failed to account for it. With current FDA labeling and clinical guidelines, fluoxetine’s active metabolite can persist for weeks. Short-half-life agents such as paroxetine and venlafaxine are well-known for producing anxiety, irritability, and insomnia during withdrawal. Benzodiazepines can trigger rebound anxiety or paradoxical excitation. SSRIs themselves can cause activation, heightened anxiety, insomnia, emotional blunting, or intrusive thoughts. When these drugs are piled on in quick succession by multiple uncoordinated prescribers—sertraline, fluoxetine, mirtazapine, trazodone, zolpidem, lorazepam, clonazepam, diazepam, quetiapine, lamotrigine, and others—no clinician can distinguish drug side effects, residual effects, withdrawal, interactions, or the underlying condition. The patient’s condition deteriorated under this uncontrolled pattern of one psychiatric drug being piled on after another. What this public trial has exposed is how ignorant mainstream psychiatrists are of what has already been publicly proven or disproven. Dr. Sejal Shah, presented as an “expert” as an Associate Chief at a Harvard-affiliated hospital, explained SSRIs as correcting a “lack of serotonin” in the brain—the debunked chemical imbalance myth that mainstream psychiatry claims to have stopped using decades ago. Yet this Harvard psychiatrist apparently didn’t get the memo. Or psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts, who claimed the FDA’s black-box warning on antidepressants causing suicidal ideation applied only to children. The actual FDA warning covers adults through age 24. And as common sense would dictate, there is no scientific basis for claiming the risk vanishes the day after a patient’s 24th birthday. Psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta responded to Clancy’s extreme reaction to Zoloft—48 hours without sleep—by declaring it “unusual” and evidence of possible bipolar disorder, then prescribing the antipsychotic Seroquel. This was not clinical science. It is the same pharmaceutical marketing script engineered in the early 2000s: reframe SSRI-induced agitation and sleeplessness as “unmasked bipolar” so another profitable drug class can be added. Internal Lilly materials trained sales representatives in exactly this diagnostic switch. The company later paid $1.415 billion to settle charges that included illegal off-label promotion of Zyprexa for such uses. This trial is showing the public that the emperor—psychiatry—has no clothes. Behind the titles, Harvard affiliations, and talk of chemical imbalances and “unmasked bipolar” sits a profession that runs on behavioral checklists, not science. It shows little interest in ruling out real physical causes—such as thyroid problems in the postpartum period—before prescribing psychiatric drugs. Side effects are rebranded as new disorders and used to justify the next prescription. Drugs are piled on with no reliable way to know what remains in the patient’s system, no required training in how to take people off them safely, and no accountability when the resulting deterioration is labeled a new “mental illness.” This is not an unusual case. This is mainstream psychiatry in every day practice: no medical workups for underlying physical conditions—just label, drug, and then blame the damage from the drugs on the patient’s ‘disease.’”
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