MindFreedom Virginia

Info MindFreedom Virginia Fight for Human Rights in Virginian Mental Health System Alison Hymes describes a battle for human rights in the mental health system in Virginia that she says could impact other states. Statewide Organization of Consumers in Virginia Introducing VOCAL. Explaining MindFreedom Virginia’s relationship to this organization. An announcement of the completion of…

NY State New Guidelines on Forced Electroshock

Info Apparently in response to the state-wide outrage following MindFreedom human rights alerts about two individuals slated for forced electroshock, NY State has issued new “guidelines” about use of involuntary electroshock over the wishes of the subject. MindFreedom’s response: No Means No. MindFreedom Update    New York State Issues New “Guidelines” on Electroshock    Guidelines…

Linking Zyprexa and TeenScreen Controversies

Info In this news analysis for MFI, Lloyd Ross, a psychologist and human rights activist, ties together the scandals of the way the psychiatric drug Zyprexa was marketed, with the targeting of America’s youth through unscientific mental health screening programs such as TeenScreen. Lloyd encourages you to take action today to support the youth of…

A People’s Centre for Treatment, Health and Therapy: Founding Meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment

Info MindFreedom South Africa launched a new project in the summer of 2007, at the founding meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment: Alternatives in Mental Health and Psychrights Advocacy. The Ubuntu Centre was conceived as a means for helping to heal the racially-charged divisions of South Africa’s apartheid past, marked by suffering of…

An Interview with Martin J. Walker

Info Document Actions Print this “Dirty Medicine” author Martin Walker talks about the codex alimentarius, the profit-driven bias of ‘pharmascience’, the commissioning and planting of deceptive news stories, the character assassination of alternative practitioners and researchers, and the dark political practices of the pharmaceutical cartel. An Interview with Martin J. Walker Date Published: Jan 01,…

Dorothy Dundas

Info While institutionalized for three years as an adolescent in the 1960’s, MindFreedom member Dorothy Washburn Dundas was labeled a “schizophrenic” and forced to undergo 40 combined insulin coma-electroshock “treatments.” Dorothy says, “I experienced and witnessed many atrocities. I believe that luck, determination, and my own anger and one compassionate advocate were my best friends…

“Depression and mental disorders can be prevented and treated with simple healing foods”

Info Document Actions Print this More scientific evidence for the healing effects of good nutrition: A study has found that omega-3 fatty acids and foods high in uridine reduce the symptoms of depression as well as, or better than, three different antidepressant drugs. “Depression and mental disorders can be prevented and treated with simple healing…