Info The CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” has often run stories from the point of view of the mental health industry without adequately covering the other side of the story. They’re doing it again about the issue of access to guns by people who have been labeled “mentally defective.” On 29 April 2007, “60 Minutes”…
Info Document Actions Print this Just how many chances did we have to avoid Cho’s day of terror? A youth psychiatric survivor speaks out on the issue. A Hundred Billion Chances Date Published: Apr 30, 2007 03:00 AM Author: Martin Rafferty, Youth Outreach Coordinator Source: MindFreedom International A twenty-year-old youth survivor of the mental health…
Info Here are edited quotes from the appearance of David Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International, on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation.” The subject: Calls for more forced psychiatric drugging emerging from the Virginia Tech tragedy. MFI board member Judi Chamberlin is also quoted, as a caller. National Public Radio Talk of the Nation…
A national coalition composed of groups run by mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors issues a statement to the media. WASHINGTON (4/20/07) – The National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations an organization of people with psychiatric histories, asks that everyone learn from the tragic events at Virginia Tech, in which a student was responsible for 33…
Info On 1 April 2007 — April Fools Day — in the city of Pune in India, a mental health center held a major event promoting electroshock. The organizers of the promotion covered up hazards about electroshock and gave false information. MindFreedom has a sponsor group in Pune, Center for Advocacy in Mental Health, a…
Info Steve Miccio, director of a mental health consumer group called “Project to Empower and Organize the Psychiatrically Labeled (PEOPLe)” in New York State that is staffed by people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. *A Call to Action* By Steve Miccio, executive director PEOPLe, Inc.; immediate Past President, NYAPRS Whenever there is a tragedy of any…
Info Document Actions Print this Virginia Tech Anguishes Over Missed Signals Date Published: Apr 21, 2007 03:00 AM Author: ADAM GELLER Source: Associated Press via Washington Post BLACKSBURG,Va. — The student slouched into his chair, his face wrapped insunglasses, the brim of his baseball cap pulled down so low his eyeswere almost lost. The Virginia…
Filed Under: youth Reflections on youth, psychiatric labeling, and the catastrophe at Virginia Tech. I’m 51 when I write this. Between between the ages of 19 and 21 I was locked up five times in psychiatric institutions while I was attending Harvard. The current tragedy on the campus of Virginia Tech connects with my heart…
Info MindFreedom endorses this important protest in Toronto, Canada of forced electroshock. What Meeting When May 13, 2007 from 07:00 AM to 09:00 AM Where Toronto, Montreal & Ireland Contact Name Don Weitz Contact Phone 416-545-0796 Add event to calendar vCal iCal Mother’s Day protests of electroshock are now planned in Montreal, Toronto and Ireland.…
Info Selected media chronology related to news and analysis about the interaction of the mental health system with Seung-Hui Cho. Virginia Tech 6 May 2007 Personal reflections by a psychologist who identifies as an individual who has had mental health care: Al Galves calls for more alternatives in an essay about the Virginia Tech Tragedy.…