Restraint is Criminal A Terrifying Experience The terror experienced by those forcibly restrained in a psychiatric ward can have a deep and lasting impact on an already fragile and vulnerable person. From the patient’s perspective, if they don’t die, they certainly...
Orders for forced ‘shock therapy’ breached human rights of schizophrenia patients, court rules ABC News, 1 Nov 2018 Orders forcing two Victorian patients with schizophrenia to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were made in breach of their human rights, the...
Are Psychiatric Drugs, Documented to Cause Violence behind the Shooting of Six Members of the Same Family at Margaret River? Media Release, CCHR Australia. 21 May 2018\ Are Psychiatric Drugs, Documented to Cause Violence behind the Shooting of Six Members of the Same...
Grandfather forced to undergo ECT before ‘preventable’ death By Aisha Dow, WA Today, 18 April 2018 In a desperate attempt to treat a crippling mental illness, Gerard Helliar submitted to hundreds of bouts of electroconvulsive therapy. Now a Victorian coroner...
Sweeping mental health reforms in NSW announced after Miriam Merten’s death By Nour Haydar, ABC News, 11 May 2018 Mental health units and emergency departments across New South Wales will have 24-hour supervision under a government plan to improve psychiatric care and...
Mentally Ill Wa Kids Still Put in Solitude Cathy O’Leary, The West Australian, 7 Feb 2018 Dozens of mentally unwell children in WA are still being put in seclusion rooms or physically restrained, some for more than 10 hours at a time, figures show. While WA’s...
