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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Ireland Non-profit watchdog investigating and exposing human rights violations in the Irish mental health field.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is the leading non-governmental international mental health watchdog. It was established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry. CCHR is a non-profit, non-political and non-religious organisation. It works with doctors, scientists, nurses and psychiatrists as well as the general public who have taken a stance against the harmful effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy and the biological-drug model of “disease” that is continually promoted by the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry as a way to sell drugs. CCHR campaigns to restore basic human rights to the field of mental health, including full informed consent regarding the issue of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful and the right to all available medical alternatives. CCHR Ireland is the Irish branch of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights United Kingdom with International headquarters in Los Angeles, California. CCHR has 150 Chapters in 70 countries and has helped to enact more than 180 laws worldwide that have curtailed and protected individuals from psychiatric abuse. We work with like-minded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to clean up the field of mental health and shall continue to do so until psychiatry's abusive and coercive practices cease and human rights and dignity are returned to the mental health field. Achievements to date:

* Hosted Ireland's largest-ever mental health exhibition in the RDS.

* Distributed tens of thousands of our DVDs to educate politicians, mental health professionals, key public figures and the many organisations that share the goal of a future without psychiatric abuses.

* Helped many Irish individuals with information about psychiatry, information about how to investigate the effective medical alternatives available and assistance with how to access legal advice to obtain redress for psychiatric harm. If you know someone who has been harmed by psychiatry please make them aware of the information here on Facebook and also on our websites. Feel free to contact us in confidence, we are always happy to help.

13/10/2026

5 brutally honest reasons you might still be depressed. Number 5 is the one nobody wants to hear.

1. You're waiting to feel good before you change your life. Sometimes you have to carry the low mood with you while you get your steps in, buy real food, or call a friend.

2. You let your emotions drive. Anxious? Third glass of w**e. Lonely? Two hours of scrolling. Next time, name it out loud: "I'm noticing I feel anxious." Feel your feet on the ground. Then ask: do I actually want to do what this emotion is telling me?

3. You're eating bad food. Your body is literally 3D printed from the raw materials you give it. Start with one change: cut the sugary drinks first, then the ultra-processed stuff in the pantry. Aim for 80% whole foods.

4. You're not moving. Start with a 10-minute walk. Build to 5,000 steps, then 7,000, then 10,000. Then add two strength sessions a week.

5. You're using drugs to escape problems that need to be addressed.

Imagine a smoke alarm goes off and someone just pulls the batteries out. "Problem solved." That's what we do when the only answer to anxiety and depression is a pill.

Your symptoms mean something. Look at your physical health, your relationships, and whether you have something meaningful to do with your day. Not sure where to start? Start with your body.

Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.

11/10/2026

🔴Work With Therapist Jenn Schmitz and Dr Teralyn Sell 👉https://www...

11/10/2026

The 3 Worst Psychiatric Medications

I've spent nearly 8 years helping people taper off psychiatric meds. Three types cause more problems than any others.

1. Sedating medications like Remeron, Paxil, Zyprexa and Seroquel.
Daytime fatigue is the biggest reason people want off these. The sedation zaps your motivation, so you move less. In one study of 7,000 people, antidepressant users moved 29% less. On olanzapine (Zyprexa), people moved 41% less than placebo.
Many also stimulate appetite. Antidepressant users ate about 215 more calories a day. People on olanzapine ate 370 more.
Move less, eat more, and over a few years you gain weight, get inflamed, and feel even more depressed. Then you get blamed for being "weak-willed."

2. Benzodiazepines like Xanax, Klonopin and Va**um.
Powerful in the short term. But they wear off, so people chase the effect with higher doses. They're addictive. And withdrawal can be brutal. Since 2019, the US warning for the whole class mentions protracted withdrawal, with symptoms that
can last from weeks to more than 12 months. I've seen it last years. Most doctors never mention it. Long-term use can also make anxiety and depression worse. In one study, non-depressed patients given a benzo had a four-fold higher chance of developing significant depressive symptoms.

3. Adderall.
I'm seeing more and more Adderall-induced psychosis and mania. In a 2024 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, higher amphetamine doses were tied to a 5.28-fold higher risk of psychosis and mania. Ritalin was not linked to higher odds.
What can you do instead? Move every day (7,000 steps is the bare minimum), switch to whole foods, and cut caffeine and ni****ne. There are also safer medication options to discuss with your doctor. And if you're coming off any of these, do it slowly. Going too fast is how people get hurt.

Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.

05/10/2026

🔴Work With Therapist Jenn Schmitz and Dr Teralyn Sell 👉https://www...

01/10/2026

As Akathisia-Induced Su***de Awareness Month comes to a close. We would like to take a moment to remember the lives lost to Akathisia-Induced Su***de.

In just one Facebook support group, more than 150 known deaths have been recorded since 2018. And even that devastating number is only a fraction of the true toll, with many deaths never identified or recorded as being connected to akathisia.

Many did not want to die… much like a person that jumps from a burning building does not want to die. Rather they urgently need to escape the flames. Akathisia comes with such urgent desperation to escape the internal torture.

Many were left isolated, abandoned, and profoundly misunderstood, while unbearable torturous symptoms consumed them in a hell that defies belief. It took away their ability to function, their independence, their security, their relationships, and the lives they once knew.

They suffered unimaginably, beyond the limits of what any human being should ever have to bear, and were driven to end their lives.

Too often, these deaths are incorrectly viewed through the lens of mental illness, instead of the severe medication-induced harm being the cause.

They were more than statistics. They were sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, partners, friends, and people whose lives mattered.

We honour their courage, acknowledge the immense suffering they experienced, and remember that behind every name is a story that should never be forgotten.

Today, we remember the countless lives lost. Please share the names of others we have lost because of Akathisia in the comments.

Let us speak their names, honour their lives, and ensure they are not forgotten.

Christine Norlock
Joey Marino
Stephanie Eisensmith
Stewart Dolin
Stephen O’Neill
Joey Marino
Kathleen Fliller
Eric Brennan
Antony Schofield
Judith Barr

Caitlin Smith
Natalie Gehrki
Joe Schiel
Michelle Laurice Goulevitch
Mark Mahomes
David Bromberg
Samantha Lowe
Tina Honabach Phillips
Alisa Tongova
Adama Wise

Kim Anne Smith
Kesh St. Hewind
Kristopher James Schneider
Alexander Buchban
John Hinde
Greg Fenton
Victoria Buckland
Kristen Elizabeth
Marissa Parker
Kata Balint

Jo Dennison
Kari Lord
Raven Shannon Dallas
Johnny Bates
Sam Lindley
Sarah Ceret/Ewer
Marly Van Mullem
Mona Motwani
Sarah Hallahan Espiritu
Robert Balfe

Ed White
Abraham Grady Stegall
Toby Santangelo

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29/09/2026

Psychiatrists want you to believe there's an epidemic of mental disease and that prescribed, mind-altering psychiatric drugs are the remedy.

For decades, they've been working to convince the public their drugs are indispensable to the problems of everyday living. And yet they confess they have no answers to mental healing.

The list of catastrophic psychiatric failings grows. Whether it's prescribed antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, stimulants, or mood stabilisers, the fatalities continue. But instead of scrutinising the harmful effects of their prescribing habits, psychiatrists often blame their patients and their mental difficulties for the failures.

Which is why it's vital to consistently post about the charade and the smokescreen being used by psychiatrists to camouflage the abject failings. Despite objections, psychiatrists must be held accountable, responsible and culpable. They must not be allowed to carry on harming with impunity.

24/09/2026

UK health chiefs are reviewing the safety of a common heart drug used off-label to reduce anxiety symptoms, following a string of fatal overdoses.

24/09/2026

In a significant departure from medical diagnosis, psychiatric diagnoses are devoted to the categorisation of symptoms only, not the observation of actual physical disease.

Psychiatry is devoted to drugging those symptoms, and perpetuating a profit-driven psychiatric agenda. It isn't in the business of resolving mental disturbance for the simple reason that if it ever cured anyone of a mental "disorder", the business would fold.

Psychiatry is a charade and it's up to the many discerning taxpayers to recognise this and call for the diversion of funds towards real medicine and the discovery and treatment of undiagnosed physical conditions that can manifest as mental disturbance.

20/09/2026

One medication switch shouldn’t be able to rewrite your whole life,...

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