Finding Real Causes
A BETTER MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
"The right to have a thorough, physical and clinical examination by a competent registered general practitioner of one's choice, to ensure that one's mental condition is not caused by any undetected and untreated physical illness, injury or defect, and the right to seek a second medical opinion of one's choice." Article 3 of CCHR's Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights.
People do have problems in life, sometimes very serious. Mental difficulties do exist, people's hopes and dreams can be shattered and their methods of coping with this can fail. However, with such prevalence of mind-altering psychiatric drugs that can damage the body, psychiatrists are not healing, but creating addicts and life-long patients.
Do No Harm
Therefore, the first action to take with the mentally disturbed is to "do no harm."
Secondly, do not tell them they have a psychiatric "disease" that only a drug can correct. They are having enough trouble as it is. More than anything they often need rest and security.
CCHR has long been an advocate for competent, non-psychiatric, medical evaluation of people with mental problems. Undiagnosed and untreated physical conditions can manifest as "psychiatric" symptoms.
