Parents and Grandparents

Have you ever been forced to take your child or grandchild to see a psychiatrist or psychologist, or been threatened if you did not want to?

Has your child or grandchild suffered severe side effects from psychiatric treatment? (Like the boy put on psychotropic drugs who then lost his appetite, suffered headaches, tired easily and pleaded with his mother, “Do I have to take this drug, Mom? I’m smart enough on my own!”

Have you seen your child or grandchild worsen under psychiatric treatment, or suffer real harm or even death?

Psychiatry can destroy a child’s education, life and future. If you have witnessed or experienced this, you are not alone. Through psychiatry’s false explanations, easy-seizure (commitment) laws and depersonalizing “treatments,” thousands across the globe unwittingly fall into psychiatry’s coercive system every day.

If your child or a child you know has been victimized by false psychiatric diagnoses such as “attention deficit disorder” and then forced to undergo harmful or degrading psychiatric treatment by a psychiatrist, psychologist or other mental health practitioner, CCHR is willing to listen and assist you.

To protect yourself and those you love from criminal psychiatric abuse, the abuses must be reported to proper law enforcement agencies so effective action can be taken.

QUESTION: WHAT SHOULD BE REPORTED?

ANSWER: Report any crime or act which you believe endangers the health, safety and well-being of a child, family member or friend, including neglect, acts of physical or sexual assault, abusive physical or chemical restraints, false imprisonment (wrongful detention in a psychiatric facility), fraud or misdiagnosis.

QUESTION: HOW SHOULD THIS BE REPORTED?

ANSWER: Write up all known details about the abuse, including dates, places, names of psychiatrists, psychologists or others involved, ensuring patient confidentiality is respected. Send this to the nearest CCHR chapter. Following are some guidelines:

1. Provide answers to these questions:

  • What led to the child or other person being diagnosed with a psychiatric “disorder,” treated and/or hospitalized by a mental health practitioner?
  • What was the diagnosis given? Was this given after a thorough medical examination for underlying physical problems that could look like “mental illness”?
  • Was there health insurance involved? Did it seem the diagnosis was based on what insurance coverage was held? Was length of hospitalization increased or decreased based on insurance coverage?
  • Was full, written, informed consent given for the treatment received?

If the abuse involved physical or chemical restraints, do you know who ordered the restraints and under what circumstances?

What damage, if any, was suffered?

2. Support your information with as much documentation as possible. Remember, do not do anything illegal. Use only evidence that is acquired legally to substantiate the abuse.

3. Call CCHR to further discuss your case and make an appointment.

All information will be held in strict confidence.

REPORT A PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE