European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

Suicide-register
to enable preventive measures for discovering the connection between suicidality and neuroleptics, antidepressants, electroshock and other forms of psychiatric compulsion

In February 2000, the German Organization 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. The missing of a registration of suicides associated with psychiatric treatment methods, covering all areas of a country, is a serious evil; such data are a fundamental prerequisite for cause-research and an important basis for prevention and early detection. 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 and with a meaningful participation of independent organisations of users and survivors of psychiatry.

For more information about drug-caused depression and suicidality click here

Suicide-register
as one possibilty to combat harassment and discrimination faced by people with mental health problems in health care services

Recommended within the action project "Harassment and discrimination faced by people with psycho-social disability in health services", organised in the framework of the Community Action Programme to combat discrimination 2001-2006, funded by the European Commission – Employment and Social Affairs

For more information about the recommendations to combat harassment and discrimination click here