A new Columbia University study published in the January issue of the journal Neuropsychopharmacology found that shock treatment, also know as "electroconvulsive therapy" (ECT), causes permanent damage to memory, cognitive abilities and reaction time. In the study, leading ECT advocate Harold Sackeim reverses his decades-long denial of the debilitating damage caused by ECT. Sackeim, who co-authored the study, has been one of the most outspoken proponents of ECT and in the recent study failed to disclose his financial interests in ECT device manufacturer Mecta Corp. The study found, "Greater amnesia for autobiographical events was significantly correlated with the number of ECT treatments received 6-months earlier." The study's authors wrote that "this study provides the first evidence in a large, prospective sample that adverse cognitive effects can persist for an extended period, and that they characterize routine treatment with ECT in community settings." In the post-ECT assessment, the study found that "In each instance, older patients and those with lower estimated intellectual function had more severe deficits" and "The gender differences...reflected greater deficits in women than in men." Shockingly, it is elderly women, the most at risk, who are the most common recipients of ECT--almost 50% of those receiving electroshock are over 65 years old and women comprise two-thirds of ECT recipients. The U.S. psychiatric industry today reaps an estimated $5 billion a year from the administration of ECT. Of the estimated 300 Americans who die each year from electroshock, 250 are elderly.
Click CCHR for more information on the debilitating effects of psychiatric treatment.
Kevin Hall
Citizens Commission on Human Rights New England
Additional information End of Shock
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Protest Fox 25
Fox 25 News report on the Citizens Commission on Human Rights protest in Sudbury, Ma on the 24th had an incorrect headline. It was a protest by members of Citizens Commission on Human Rights, who feel great sorrow and sympathy for the parents, friends and children
who must live through this local tragedy. Our hearts go out to them and to the other children and their families whose "treatments" can cause side effects that cause violence reactions. We want parents to read and understand the "Black Box" labels and demand less dangerous treatment
for their children.
who must live through this local tragedy. Our hearts go out to them and to the other children and their families whose "treatments" can cause side effects that cause violence reactions. We want parents to read and understand the "Black Box" labels and demand less dangerous treatment
for their children.
"We understand the parents are going through the tragedy of losing their kids, but we want to educate the public," Abbi Baldarelli said as she held one end of the banner. "We're trying to prevent something tragic from happening again."
Free Documentary for Government Officials and Mental Health Attorneys Eposing Psychiatry's Abusive Procedures
To visually show legislators, other government officials, parents and attorneys the full harm done through the abuse of the mental health profession, Citizens Commission on Human Rights New England is offering them a free copy of the documentary, "PSYCHIATRY: AN INDUSTRY OF DEATH."
Other interested people may order the $30 documentary for $19.99, shipping and handling included.
Other interested people may order the $30 documentary for $19.99, shipping and handling included.
"Psychiatry and it's related human services' programs consist of a very large percentage of state and federal budgets, yet it's very rare that government officials fully understand the consequences of eight million US school children being prescribed psychotropic drugs, the dangerous use of restraints and involuntary commitment, electroshock, lobotomies, aversive therapy and more," said Kevin Hall, New England Director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. "Despite this and the fact that fraud and abuse are rampant in psychiatry, they sign away on funding these actions."
Click this link www.cchr.org for the first segment of this documentary. The rest of the documentary contains copyrighted information that cannot be placed online.
Order by check payable to:
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
1112 Boylston Street, PMB 213
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 927-CCHR(2247)
Below is the documentary's executive summary:
"Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Documentary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
"Powerful and disturbing but ultimately inspirational" -- Martin Whitley, Member of Parliament
This documentary shows psychiatry in action as you have never seen before. Its footage and information bring you from the industry's hidden roots to their controversies of today.
Through rare historical and contemporary footage and eye-opening interviews with more than 160 doctors, attorneys, educators, survivors and experts on the mental health industry and its abuses, this riveting documentary takes you on a virtual tour of the fraudulent diagnoses, harmful and even deadly "treatments" that have been at the core of psychiatry over the past 250 years.
The DVD companion brochure contains over 150 photos and graphics that track the history of psychiatry from it's 18th century origins to today, where 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions and 20 million children internationally (8 million in the US alone) have been put on potentially lethal, mind-altering drugs, often in extremely dangerous and untested combinations.
The general public, government officials, educators, insurance companies and even medical practitioners have been targets of multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns to minimize the harm and lack of results from psychiatric procedures ranging from lobotomies, to electro- and insulin-shock, harm from restraint, psychotropic drugging and much more.
One cannot responsibly operate or oversee government, medical, educational or insurance activities without viewing and understanding the information provided through this documentary.
School Violence
We are devastated by senseless acts of violence; we are even more shocked when children and teens commit these acts. We ask, “How could this happen?”
Governments and communities have come to realize that they have underestimated the dangers of psychoactive drugs and psychological programs in schools.
Eight out of 13 U.S. school shootings were committed by teens taking prescribed psychotropic drugs known to cause violent and suicidal behavior.
At least five teens responsible for school massacres had undergone school-sanctioned “anger management” or other psychological behavior modification programs such as “death education.”
For decades, schools around the world have used “death education,” a psychological experiment in which the children are made to discuss suicide, what they would like placed in their coffins, and write their own epitaphs in an effort to “get kids more comfortable with death.” Anger management aims at curbing aggressive or violent behavior but virtually no reliable data exists to prove it can eliminate the problem. In one class, a boy beat up a classmate so badly that six days later the boy was still in the hospital.
Critics cite 18-year-old Eric Harris (right) and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold as prime examples of the failure of “anger management,” “death education” and psychiatric drugs. As students at Columbine High School, Colorado, they were asked to imagine their own death. Harris subsequently had a dream where he and Klebold went on a shooting rampage in a shopping center. In addition to attending these classes, Harris was taking an antidepressant drug known to cause mania (violent behavior). He even wrote about his killing spree dream and handed it in to the psychology teacher. Not long after, Harris and Klebold acted out the dream by shooting and killing 12 students and a teacher, and wounding 23 others.
On May 21, 1998, in Oregon, USA, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel shot and killed his parents and then went on a wild shooting spree at his high school, which left two dead and 22 injured. He was taking a psychiatric stimulant and had undergone a psychological “anger management” program.
The information on these pages makes it obvious that if education authorities sanction the combination of a psychological value system—psychologists argue that it is “value-neutral”—with violence-inducing, psychiatric drugs, we have a powder keg waiting for a spark
.
Governments and communities have come to realize that they have underestimated the dangers of psychoactive drugs and psychological programs in schools.
Eight out of 13 U.S. school shootings were committed by teens taking prescribed psychotropic drugs known to cause violent and suicidal behavior.
At least five teens responsible for school massacres had undergone school-sanctioned “anger management” or other psychological behavior modification programs such as “death education.”
For decades, schools around the world have used “death education,” a psychological experiment in which the children are made to discuss suicide, what they would like placed in their coffins, and write their own epitaphs in an effort to “get kids more comfortable with death.” Anger management aims at curbing aggressive or violent behavior but virtually no reliable data exists to prove it can eliminate the problem. In one class, a boy beat up a classmate so badly that six days later the boy was still in the hospital.
Critics cite 18-year-old Eric Harris (right) and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold as prime examples of the failure of “anger management,” “death education” and psychiatric drugs. As students at Columbine High School, Colorado, they were asked to imagine their own death. Harris subsequently had a dream where he and Klebold went on a shooting rampage in a shopping center. In addition to attending these classes, Harris was taking an antidepressant drug known to cause mania (violent behavior). He even wrote about his killing spree dream and handed it in to the psychology teacher. Not long after, Harris and Klebold acted out the dream by shooting and killing 12 students and a teacher, and wounding 23 others.
On May 21, 1998, in Oregon, USA, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel shot and killed his parents and then went on a wild shooting spree at his high school, which left two dead and 22 injured. He was taking a psychiatric stimulant and had undergone a psychological “anger management” program.
The information on these pages makes it obvious that if education authorities sanction the combination of a psychological value system—psychologists argue that it is “value-neutral”—with violence-inducing, psychiatric drugs, we have a powder keg waiting for a spark
.
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