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End Forced Mental Health Treatment

End Forced Mental Health Treatment

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Thousands of people are being treated against their will in psychiatric hospitals and the community in the UK. Many thousands more are being so treated throughout the world. The vast majority are not violent and do not pose a risk to others. For the majority, "treatment" means toxic psychiatric drugs such as antipsychotics, which have been proven to cause irreversible changes in the brain, as well as an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. For a significant minority it means ECT, or Electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock to the brain. For the facts about current psychiatric practice, please read "Anatomy of an Epidemic", by Robert Whittaker, or "Toxic Psychiatry" by Peter Breggin. Most, if not all, people diagnosed with mental illness retain capacity to make treatment decisions, but these are routinely overridden by psychiatrists and the Mental Health Act. The Mental Health Act 1983 contravenes the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which specifically outlaws deprivation of liberty on the grounds of disability and recognises the right to refuse treatment. Sign this and demand the PM observes the UNCRPD and ends the discriminatory treatment of people diagnosed mentally ill. Forced treatment could happen to any one of us, or one of our family members.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/15/mental-health-patients-forced-detention
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