• What's Killing Our Soldiers

    In order to gain acceptance as a medically relevant entity, psychiatry deliberately infiltrated this nation's defense forces and others around the world, practicing pseudo-science on unsuspecting service men and women under the guise of mental health “treatment.”

    See the first documentary to fully expose psychiatry's use of military personnel worldwide as guinea pigs, subjecting soldiers to devastating psychiatric experiments.

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  • What We Believe

    The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health watchdog. Its mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health and enact patient and consumer protections.

    Functioning as a mental health watchdog, CCHR has helped to enact more than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive mental health practices.

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  • Labeling Kids with Bogus Mental Disorders

    20 Million Kids & Adolescents are labeled with "mental disorders" that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove they are "mentally ill", yet these children are stigmatized for life with psychiatric disorders, and prescribed dangerous,life-threatening psychiatric drugs. Child drugging is a $4.8 billion-a-year industry. Get the facts about this multi-billion dollar industry that is labeling and drugging kids for profit.

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  • Mental Disorders: the Facts Behind the Marketing Campaign

    “There are no objective tests in psychiatry. No X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder. It's bull. I mean, you just can't define it.” — Allen Frances, Psychiatrist and former DSM-IV Task Force Chairman

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No Expectation of Recovery in Public Mental Health

[Excerpt from King County Ordinance 13974] – emphasis in red added] Promoting recovery has become the rallying point for the consumer and family movement (1999 Mental Health Report from the Surgeon General). Throughout 1999 the public debate about mental health issues raised expectations about the recovery model as mentioned by providers, clients, advocates and citizens.

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Warehousing In a Major Mental Health System

Abstract Over the past decade, proposals to transform our nation’s mental health system have called for an end to the “warehousing” of system clients and the provision of services that promote recovery.  In King County, Washington, efforts would also appear to be underway to establish a recovery-based system.  But outcome reports from the King County

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King County Mental Health – Lack of Results

This report is so damning of the mental health system, they do not want you to see the report. You can go to the King County mental health website and you will not see this report. You have to know it exists and ask for it. NOTE:  One of these reports is available elsewhere online –

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Lack of Health Outcomes

Update on Outcome Reporting in the Washington State Mental Health System I. The JLARC report In 2000, the Washington State Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee produced a report entitled Mental Health System Performance Audit analyzing the Washington State Mental Health System.* This report had been requested by the Washington State Legislature. The report noted

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Washington State Results

Only 5.7% – 12.5% of adults achieve meaningful improvement in their psychological and social functioning after receiving treatment (WSIPP report 2008). Poor results are corroborated statewide. Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP) was directed by the 2001  Washington State legislature to conduct long-term outcomes studies of clients of the Washington State public mental health system. 

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Was Navy Yard Killer on Anti-Depressant Meds?

“As CCHR documents, psychiatric drugs have been involved in at least 31 different school shootings and other massacres over the last 25 years.” SSRI drugs linked with multitude of mass shooting cases Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com September 17, 2013 Several indications suggest that Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis may have been taking psychiatric drugs, bringing

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The Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Senseless Violence

There is overwhelming evidence that psychiatric drugs cause violence: 22 international drug regulatory warnings cite violence, mania, hostility, aggression, psychosis and even homicidal ideation. Individuals under the influence of such drugs and committing these acts of senseless violence are not limited to using guns and are not limited to just schools. There have been 10

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Contrave

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new weight loss drug on September 10. Aren’t you excited? Don’t get your hopes up, we’re going to tell you all the reasons you should not take this drug. I just lost 10 pounds by eating meat and vegetables for a month. I temporarily gave up

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