Info A psychologist who identifies as an individual who has personally experienced mental health care reflects on the lessons we can draw from the Virginia Tech tragedy. Al Galves, PhD is a board member of MindFreedom International, though this is an individual statement. What jumps out at me about the Virginia Tech tragedy is that…
Info The press reports that the Virginia Medical Examiner’s office has announced they will refuse to release results of Cho’s toxicology and autopsy reports. On 2 May MindFreedom Virginia filed a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia to require the disclosure of this information. MindFreedom Virginia…
Info Today is supposed to be the beginning of “mental health month.” When it comes to the catastrophe at Virginia Tech, let’s not have May become “cover-up month.” 1 May 2007 Statement on Cho and Full Disclosure by David Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International The Roanoke Times in Virginia hasreported that the Virginia Medical Examiner will…
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 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…
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.…