Info According to many studies, more and more young adults are reporting feeling more stressed and depressed this year. MindFreedom International Youth Committee members pitched in with Reachout.com to help make a video to educate the public about this challenge. Reachout.com is launched! By Martin Rafferty, MFI Youth Advisory Committee Enter Reachout.com a website dedicated…
A longtime MindFreedom activist plans a hike through the wilderness to support MindFreedom. Help us win human rights in mental health this spring by pledging today! Joseph Carson This June, longtime human rights activist Joseph Carson is hiking to raise funds for MindFreedom International. Please show your support for a non-violent revolution in the mental…
Info Document Actions Print this Evelyn Pringle covers the push to screen mothers for psychiatric issues in the USA. MindFreedom is mentioned as part of the network of groups fighting this. Blanket screening without adequate advocacy, information and alternatives is worse than nothing, because it marches moms to the door of a mental health system,…
Info More and more mainstream media and research studies are exposing extreme hazards and human rights violations associated with the prescription of antipsychotic psychiatric drugs, which are also known as neuroleptics, without adequate advocacy, information and alternatives. MindFreedom calls for multiple investigations. One of the most common antipsychotic (or “neuroleptic”) psychiatric drugs is Zyprexa, manufactured…
Info Martin Rafferty, coordinator of the Youth Voices for Choices Campaign, created an overview flow chart about the current direction and vision of the effort. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 151.5 kB Document Actions Print this
Info Youth Voices for Choices Campaign A MindFreedom campaign to encourage younger people to speak out about what they would like to see in an empowering and humane mental health care system. Youth Voices for Choices Campaign Diagram Document Actions Print this
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…
Info Once more, the USA Congress is considering a bill to help protect families from being pressured by schools to screen young people for mental health problems. And once more, MindFreedom is issuing an alert to encourage all USA citizens to contact your congressional delegation and support this important bill. In the past, the bill…
Info Screening President Bush called for making mental health “screening” of all young people “common practice.” Looking for troubled kids sounds good. But this is a mental health system without adequate advocacy, information, empowerment, and alternatives. Mental health screening marches thousands of young people to the door of a troubled mental health system. The Parental…
Info Pfizer uses images such as this to claim their product Zoloft corrects a chemical imbalance. Pfizer doesn’t tell customers science has never found such an imbalance. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 8.4 kB Document Actions Print this