Official CCHR tweets. CCHR is a nonprofit mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to enact more than 150 laws protecting individuals from abuse.

Joined May 2009
📰 Demanding Justice for 2,000 Lives Lost in Essex’s Mental Health System Over the 10 years since her son’s death, Melanie Leahy has led a campaign exposing deadly failings in Essex mental health services, pushing for transparency, justice and reform. cchr.org/newsletter/volume10…
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What does it take to connect the dots between violence and psychotropic drugs? How about a dead straight line. cchr.org/prescription-for-vi…
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📰 Exposing Human Rights Abuses in France’s Mental Health Hospitals CCHR France’s investigations revealed systemic abuse in psychiatric facilities, leading to a historic ruling that mandates third-party oversight of restraint and seclusion. cchr.org/newsletter/volume10… @CcdhOfficiel
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My 40 Year War on Psychiatry - "Forty years ago, I attended the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington and my sanity never recovered. Or at least that is what therapists presume based on my writings about their endless fabrication of bogus mental illnesses." mises.org/mises-wire/my-40-y…
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Hear Kenny’s story in a shocking new mental health documentary from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock. cchr.org/ban-ect/survivors/k…
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Confronting the FDA’s “godfather” of modern psychiatric medication with the truth … and the ending you never saw coming.
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This was the same argument made years ago when many of us were fighting to get FDA blackbox suicide warnings added to antidepressants. People said the warnings would scare patients away from taking the medication. That logic never made sense to me. Informed consent is not fear mongering. It’s information that helps patients and families make educated decisions and know what to watch for. Like our family, there are countless others who later said, “We wish we had known.”
There does seem to be a lot of resistance to informed consent around psychiatric drugs. The major argument raised is that people wouldn't take these drugs if they knew all the downsides.
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Thank you to fellow Tennessean @johnrich for leading the charge to require written informed consent for all Veterans being prescribed psychiatric medication. We hope the same standard will be applied to all Tennesseans in 2027! @SecVetAffairs
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For decades, CCHR has worked to expose abuses in the field of mental health. Now, our documentary Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry’s Deadly Side Effects has been shortlisted for a People’s Telly Award. This award is determined by public voting—cast your vote now and help us bring this issue further into the public spotlight! Click the link here to vote: peoples.tellyawards.com/Publ… Deadline: April 17 @tellyawards
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In Episode 6 of A Nation Betrayed – Unmasking the Hidden Agenda, host Teresa Cichewicz @MIBetrayalProj sits down with Monica Ayres of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) @CCHR for a sobering and eye-opening conversation about the hidden forces shaping mental health policies and practices in America. Together, they explore the disturbing patterns of coercion, overmedication, and the systemic failures that families across the country say have left them devastated and unheard. Please watch, share and support. betrayalprojectusa.org/episo… @BetrayalProjCA @DrMargaretShow @Saorise69 @akahuckleberry @Healthwarrior86 @donna_spach626 @WellnessPattiG @VinnDoggRadio @MJ826233075 @bluhawii26 @MicMeowed
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The warnings were there all along. Psychiatrists hoped no one would read them. #mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #psychiatry #MentalHealthAwareness #prescribedharm
Youth suicides are rising. So are the antidepressant prescriptions. The warnings were there all along. Psychiatrists hoped no one would read them. @Pharmageddon24 @dsowens17 @PssdWarrior @AntipsychiatryU @AliBeckZeck @angpeacock1111 @Cooperdavis @iatrogenic_harm @samhall404
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Get informed. Say NO to psychiatric drugs.
Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry’s Deadly Side Effects reveals the connection between violence, profits and some common psychiatric drugs.
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Replying to @levelsio
Prescription for Violence: Psychiatry’s Deadly Side Effects reveals the connection between violence, profits and some common psychiatric drugs.
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No matter how many years (decades) go by, psychiatric diagnosis remains the same. No science, no cures.
A man visits several psychiatrists complaining of the same symptoms... this is what happened #psychiatricdiagnosing
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The psychiatric industry has zero tests for mental illness, zero effective treatments and, worst of all, zero cured patients. It’s not a “chemical imbalance.” It’s an ethics and economic imbalance. cchr.org/prescription-for-vi…
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Akathisia 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." Psychiatrists know their drugs can cause #akathisia. Yet they rarely warn patients that this might occur as a side effect. Watch the documentary Prescription for Violence to find out more: cchr.org/prescription-for-vi… #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #psychiatry #psychiatrist
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More than 20 million children and adolescents are taking prescribed psychiatric drugs known to cause severe side effects such as aggression, murder and suicide. In fact, the US Food and Drug Administration has slapped antidepressants with black box warnings strongly cautioning consumers against suicide. cchr.org/prescription-for-vi…
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