| European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry Suicide-register
Suicide-register as a form of prevention In February 2000 the German Organisation of the (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry put forward the demand to the health minister to introduce a suicide-register with special consideration of associated psychiatric drugs, electroshocks, restraint and other forms of psychiatric compulsion. An obligation to notify the authorities of suicides associated with psychiatry and psychiatric drugs could enable preventive measures and instigate reliable studies that discover the connection between suicidality and the effects of psychiatric drugs. Not only neuroleptics, as shown, but antidepressants and electroshock, too, should be watched very attentively. Reports of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry who have been pushed into suicide attempts after traumatizing treatment with psychiatric drugs, electro- and insulinshocks, must no longer been ignored. Physicians and relatives have to be informed about the risk of drug-caused depression and suicidality. The users of psychiatry need to be informed so that they can make a carefully considered and informed decision about taking or not-taking an offered psychiatric drug and if necessary can take less risky measures against their depression. For more information click here |