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    The reality of nursing home and aged care center life today is often far from the stylized image of communicative, interactive and interested elderly residents living in an idyllic environment. More often than not, the institutionalized elderly of today appear submissive, quiet, somehow vacant, a sort of lifelessness about them, perhaps blankly staring or deeply introspective and withdrawn. If not by drugs, these conditions can also be brought on by the use of electroconvulsive or shock treatment (ECT) or simply the threat of painful and demeaning restraints. Rather than this being the failure of nursing hospital and aged care staff generally, this is the legacy of the widespread introduction of psychiatric treatment into the care of the elderly over the last few decades.

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    The reality of nursing home and aged care center life today is often far from the stylized image of communicative, interactive and interested elderly residents living in an idyllic environment. More often than not, the institutionalized elderly of today appear submissive, quiet, somehow vacant, a sort of lifelessness about them, perhaps blankly staring or deeply introspective and withdrawn. If not by drugs, these conditions can also be brought on by the use of electroconvulsive or shock treatment (ECT) or simply the threat of painful and demeaning restraints. Rather than this being the failure of nursing hospital and aged care staff generally, this is the legacy of the widespread introduction of psychiatric treatment into the care of the elderly over the last few decades.

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    Citizens Commission on Human Rights

    RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS


    E ducation is a vital part of any initiative to reverse
    social decline. CCHR takes this responsibility very
    seriously. Through the broad dissemination of
    CCHRs Internet site, books, newsletters and other
    publications, more and more patients, families,
    becoming educated on the truth about psychiatry, and that
    something effective can and should be done about it.
    CCHRs publicationsavailable in 15 languagesshow
    the harmful impact of psychiatry on racism, education,
    women, justice, drug rehabilitation, morals, the elderly,
    professionals, lawmakers and countless others are religion, and many other areas. A list of these includes:

    THE REAL CRISISIn Mental Health Today CHILD DRUGGINGPsychiatry Destroying Lives
    Report and recommendations on the lack of science Report and recommendations on fraudulent psychiatric
    and results within the mental health industry diagnoses and the enforced drugging of youth

    MASSIVE FRAUDPsychiatrys Corrupt Industry HARMING YOUTHScreening and Drugs Ruin Young Minds
    Report and recommendations on a criminal mental Report and recommendations on harmful mental health
    health monopoly assessments, evaluations and programs within our schools
    PSYCHIATRIC MALPRACTICEThe Subversion of Medicine COMMUNITY RUINPsychiatrys Coercive Care
    Report and recommendations on psychiatrys Report and recommendations on the failure of community
    destructive impact on health care mental health and other coercive psychiatric programs
    INVENTING DISORDERSFor Drug Profits HARMING ARTISTSPsychiatry Ruins Creativity
    Report and recommendations on the unscientific Report and recommendations on psychiatry assaulting the arts
    fraud perpetrated by psychiatry
    UNHOLY ASSAULTPsychiatry versus Religion
    SCHIZOPHRENIAPsychiatrys For Profit Disease
    Report and recommendations on psychiatrys subversion
    Report and recommendations on psychiatric lies and
    false diagnoses of religious belief and practice

    BRUTAL THERAPIESHarmful Psychiatric Treatments ERODING JUSTICEPsychiatrys Corruption of Law


    Report and recommendations on the destructive Report and recommendations on psychiatry subverting
    practices of electroshock and psychosurgery the courts and corrective services
    PSYCHIATRIC RAPEAssaulting Women and Children
    ELDERLY ABUSECruel Mental Health Programs
    Report and recommendations on widespread sex crimes
    Report and recommendations on psychiatry abusing seniors
    against patients within the mental health system
    DEADLY RESTRAINTSPsychiatrys Therapeutic Assault BEHIND TERRORISMPsychiatry Manipulating Minds
    Report and recommendations on the violent and Report and recommendations on the role of psychiatry
    dangerous use of restraints in mental health facilities in international terrorism
    PSYCHIATRYHooking Your World on Drugs CREATING RACISMPsychiatrys Betrayal
    Report and recommendations on psychiatry creating
    Report and recommendations on psychiatry causing
    todays drug crisis
    racial conflict and genocide
    REHAB FRAUDPsychiatrys Drug Scam
    Report and recommendations on methadone and other CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
    disastrous psychiatric drug rehabilitation programs The International Mental Health Watchdog

    WARNING: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the
    advice and assistance of a competent, non-psychiatric, medical doctor.


    Published as a public service by the
    Citizens Commission on Human Rights

    CCHR in the United States is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation recognized by the Internal Revenue Service.

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    2008 CCHR. All Rights Reserved. CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CCHR and the CCHR logo are trademarks and service
    marks owned by Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Printed in the U.S.A. Item #18905

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