CCHR Scientology child abuse cult use more children at Royal College of Psychiatrists conference Brighton protest

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary conference of the Royal College of Psychiatrists  (RCP) on Britain's south coast at Brighton, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) invited participants from as far away as Edinburgh to protest against patient abuse in the mental health system, and the use of potent narcotics as treatment for young children with mental disorders that some have called into question.


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Protesters gathered outside the Royal Pavilion and marched along King's Road to the Hilton Metropole hotel where the RCP conference was taking place. Young protesters echoed the message of placards with t-shirts reading "love me, don't drug me," while others carried posters of children as young as 9 who had committed suicide after taking powerful antidepressant drugs.



A Worksop-based psychiatrist attending the RCP conference said that mental health is not a black and white issue, and that while he had hope for the future, practitioners do not currently have any blood or laboratory test to confirm or diagnose mental disorders. Responding to the issue of medicating children, he said that often the problem is bad parenting, but that he still believes medication should be used as it "calms them down" where previously they acted "like a bull in a china shop."

CCHR supporters however believe that boisterousness can be a natural part of childhood, and that 'being a child' should not be labelled as a mental illness. A spokesperson for the group said, "Psychiatry is the only profession that has to continually advertise its failures as well as promoting how bad it is to get more government funding," after the president of the RCP Dinesh Bhugra announced that mental health is in crisis due to staff shortages, despite receiving the largest portion of the NHS budget at £11.2bn in 2010.



In addition to the protest, CCHR are hosting a sea-front exhibition entitled 'How to Protect and Preserve Your Mental Health,' which they say points to information that isn’t being made known by psychiatrists, preventing patients making an informed choice about treatment. Their message is that a series of young deaths could have been avoided if parents were better informed, specifically citing the recent death of 10-year old Harry Hucknall who hanged himself while taking both Ritalin and Prozac.



Opening the exhibition were CCHR UK's Executive Director Lady Margaret McNair, and guest speakers Sharon Parnell, founder of Revelations UK, whose daughter's life was devastated after she was prescribed psychiatric medication; and Bob 'Fiddy' Fiddeman, founder of Seroxat Sufferers, who was himself prescribed Seroxat and experienced its side-effects first hand. The exhibition is planned to run until Sunday 3rd July.