CCHR Victoria

13/10/2026

The focus of World Mental Health Day on 10 October should be, unsurprisingly, mental health. But, the assigned custodians of mental health, psychiatrists, are in fact the custodians of mental illness and the perpetuation thereof.

It goes like this: psychiatrists sell sickness to the worried well by "disease-mongering," defined as “the act of convincing essentially well people that they are sick, or slightly sick people that they are very ill.”

Common human traits or emotions such as shyness, grief, or normal anxiety, are rebranded as clinical conditions like Social Anxiety Disorder or Generalised Anxiety Disorder. By turning personal or situational difficulties into purported biochemical brain issues, a corporate market is generated for long-term psychiatric drug consumption. People are being made into patients for life.

Unlike mainstream medicine, where conditions are diagnosed using objective physical methods like blood tests or X-rays, psychiatric diagnoses are decided by committees based on clusters of behavioural symptoms. This leaves the boundary between "normal" and "sick" highly subjective and vulnerable to expansion.

World Mental Health Day should be full of optimism rather than the pessimistic, negative narrative promoted by psychiatrists and their membership body.

On any day including , be fully informed about psychiatry and its treatments.

13/10/2026

Gaslighting is defined as a form of psychological manipulation used to make a person doubt their own reality and their perception of events. The term comes from the 1944 film Gaslight, where a husband manipulates his wife into believing she’s going insane by dimming the gas lights in their home and then denying that the lights are flickering.

In the same way the husband abused and manipulated his wife in the film, psychiatrists are doing it for real. They dismiss, invalidate, trivialise and generally make less of patients and their reported symptoms while pathologising them, leading to patients doubting their own reality, perceptions, and/or their sanity.

Gaslighting is cruel and inhumane. The comparison with psychiatry is not coincidental.

24/09/2026

24/09/2026

A fundamental aspect of psychiatric "work" revolves around the presentation of unscientific evaluations about a person's behaviour and/or narrative. For anyone who isn't aware of the psychiatric modus operandi, these evaluations can sound scientific on the surface, but they're essentially subjective opinions about what a mentally disturbed person has said and done.

Speech and behaviour are wrapped up in esoteric psychiatric narratives and entered into a patient's health record. This is accompanied by the use of psychiatric labels and prescribed mind-altering drugs.

The evaluations, labels and drugs can have a consequent stigmatising effect on patients, especially when try to establish a career after "treatment". And if a patient wants to access their record to see what damaging comments have been entered, psychiatrists can use the law to deny access. Denial is on the basis that the narrative and unscientific opinions may be considered harmful to the patient if read.

It's a scenario that represents another psychiatric method of covertly harming patients with impunity.

24/09/2026

In a significant departure from medical diagnosis, psychiatric diagnoses are devoted to the categorisation of symptoms only, not the observation of actual physical disease.

Psychiatry is devoted to drugging those symptoms, and perpetuating a profit-driven psychiatric agenda. It isn't in the business of resolving mental disturbance for the simple reason that if it ever cured anyone of a mental "disorder", the business would fold.

Psychiatry is a charade and it's up to the many discerning taxpayers to recognise this and call for the diversion of funds towards real medicine and the discovery and treatment of undiagnosed physical conditions that can manifest as mental disturbance.

24/09/2026

In 2020 the Australian Productivity Commission recommended that, “The Australian Government should require that all mental health prescriptions include a clear and prominent statement saying that clinicians should have discussed possible side effects and proposed evidence-based alternatives to psychiatric drugs prior to prescribing.” This has still not been done.

15/09/2026

When psychiatrists prescribe, suggest or enforce electroshock (ECT) as "treatment", patients aren't given the chance to make an informed choice. Patients can't give informed consent. Why not?

Because the propaganda in Patient Information Leaflets and on psychiatric websites fail to include an explanation of how brain damage occurs during the shock procedure.

When psychiatrists use an ECT device, they are forcing high-voltage electricity through the brain. This procedure creates high temperatures resulting in brain damage. It's as simple as that.

It's no surprise psychiatrists and their membership body, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, continually deny causing brain damage with the "treatment". Their jobs and their liberties are at stake.