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The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage
PsychSearch ECT and CTE - The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage By Colin Taufer "Your brain is safer in a car accident than in the hands of a psychiatrist." On September 30, 2014, researchers with Boston University announced that in autopsies of 79 brains of former NFL players, 76 had tested positive for CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, “the signature disease of football”. (Encephalopathy is defined as disease, damage or malfunction of the brain.) CTE is a degenerative disease found in people who have had a severe or repeated blows to the head, concussions. According to the Center [...]
You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison
PsychSearch You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison Colin Taufer His final days were spent in a bare jail cell alone — no bed, no mattress, no bench, no sink. His room constantly illuminated by overhead lights, and he barely slept, less than 30 minutes over a two-day period. He didn’t eat. His toilet was a grate on the floor. Eight days after being admitted and forty pounds lighter, he died covered in his own waste. Marc Moreno was eighteen-years old. He had a history of mental illness. How does it happen that a teen going through the most desperate [...]
The “Church” of the Holy Label
PsychSearch The “Church” of the Holy Label Colin Taufer Those that knew her found Candace Downing to be a very bright little girl and an overachiever, the youngest in a loving family. When she was in sixth grade, her psychiatrist, after a very brief evaluation, decided the anxieties she was experiencing during school tests would require a prescription for the antidepressant Zoloft. Her prescription was increased before she started the seventh grade. Not long after, twelve year old Candace hung herself from her four-poster bed — another life destroyed by psychiatric labeling. According to the bible of psychiatry, the DSM [...]
Psychiatric diagnosis from afar
PsychSearch Psychiatric Diagnosis from Afar Colin Taufer When psychiatrists make a claim in which they cite their “ethical responsibility” as justification for doing so, it is both absurd and laughable. Psychiatrists cannot and should not be trusted. Such was the case in April of this year when a group of psychiatrists proclaimed, "We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness." Visit the homepage of PsychSearch any day of the week and you will find a fresh assortment of mugshots of psychiatrists in trouble with the law for sex crimes, drug abuse, or fraud [...]
Coercion and Profits by Confusion
PsychSearch Coercion and Profits by Confusion Colin Taufer Open any magazine and chances are you will find its pages filled with ads from Big Pharma. This is because Big Pharma is far and away the biggest spender when it comes to magazine ads. In fact, it spends nearly double that of the number two magazine advertiser, retail and online apparel. In 2015 Big Pharma’s spending on such ads peaked at more than $1.5 billion, a 19% jump over the previous year. Such advertising is known as Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising. Not only do we see it in magazine ads, [...]
A Basic Human Right Violated
PsychSearch A Basic Human Right Violated Colin Taufer “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman* or degrading treatment or punishment,” states article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that set out, for the first time, to universally protect everyone’s fundamental human rights. In headlines, we read about violations of this human right every day. The CIA waterboarding suspected terrorists, ISIS soldiers brutalizing their kidnapped victims, war criminals committing genocide. Clearly these are acts of torture. They are cruel, inhuman and degrading. They cause outrage. They start wars, they prolong [...]
Shock Treatment in your Neighborhood
PsychSearch Shock Treatment in your Neighborhood Colin Taufer You might think the barbaric psychiatric “treatment” of applying electricity to the temples and passing it through the brain to produce grand mal seizures is obsolete. You might think that a “treatment” that causes brain damage in patients would not be tolerated by a modern, civilized society and would no longer exist. You might think a patient winning a malpractice suit against her psychiatrist for shock treatment or a class action lawsuit against manufacturers of shock treatment machines would outlaw the practice. But, as unbelievable as it may seem, [...]
In Her Own Words – A Shock Therapy Survivor
PsychSearch In Her Own Words - A Shock Therapy Survivor Colin Taufer In my last article I compared the brain damage caused by shock therapy and the brutal helmet to helmet collisions of American football. Both the patient and the player are left with short and long term symptoms such as memory loss, confusions and progressive dementia. Unfortunately, in the case of the shock patients, these detrimental symptoms are seen as the “cures” for whatever ails them. The patient’s fogged memory and impaired reasoning are seen by the psychiatrist as improvements. Dull the patient’s cognitive reasoning and emotional life force [...]
How Psychiatry Labels Gifted Children for Psychiatric Drugging
PsychSearch How Psychiatry Labels Gifted Children for Psychiatric Drugging Colin Taufer A mother and a psychiatrist are relaxing in a park, both observing the mother’s son at play. The mother feels her child may be gifted. The psychiatrist observes the boy and speculates he is suffering from ADD/ADHD and needs medication. How could this be? How could two people viewing the same child come to such different conclusions? The first answer is, like all psychiatric diagnoses, there are no bio-markers (no blood tests, no brain scans, no genetic tests, no hair analyses) that validate the “disease” of ADD/ADHD. The [...]
“Forensic Psychiatry” Insanity
PsychSearch "Forensic Psychiatry" Insanity Colin Taufer Forensic Psychiatry* - a subspecialty of psychiatry which applies to legal issues. There are two major areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry. These are Competency to Stand trial (CST) and Mental State at the Time of the Offense The American Psychiatric Association wants the world to know that mental illness is a disease just like heart disease or diabetes. This is simply not true. Diseases have biomarkers which can be tested for and proven to exist. A real doctor can examine an x-ray and diagnose heart disease or read a blood test and [...]