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A new group has been formed by people concerned with the huge numbers of people dying in New Zealand from suicide. CASPER or Community Action on Suicide Prevention, Education & Research was launched at a function on the North Shore last night.
North Shore woman Maria Bradshaw who lost her 17 year old son Toran presented up to date damning research to a large group of people including bereaved family members, health professionals, youth workers, young people, businessmen and women, NGOs and counsellors. Many were visibly shocked by information from the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee that 10% of deaths of 10 year olds in New Zealand are from suicide, that Maori and Pacific youth account for almost 50% of youth suicides and that suicide amongst young women show an upward trend.
With around 10 people committing suicide a week in New Zealand, a call was made for families and communities to be provided with the information on suicide they need to keep their members safe. The information provided by SPINZ and the Ministry of Health that suicide rates are falling and that current prevention activities are effective were strongly challenged with data showing the figures these organisations produce and their analysis are inaccurate and misleading. Their latest report revealed that 483 people had committed suicide in 2007 when the recently released figures from the Chief Coroner showed that the correct figure was 541, a huge increase on the year before.
Mental health is often touted as the solution, however it was disclosed psychiatric intervention and treatments can worsen the risks of suicide to the point of double.
A 2004 study published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry showed that the introduction of mental health initiatives rather than preventing suicide, actually increased suicide. This was a large study reviewing suicide prevention strategies of 100 countries.
Steve Green, Director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) also spoke of his support as a founding member of CASPER, encouraging people to find out the facts and raise awareness of these issues. "People need practical help not psychotropic drugs with their horrendous side effects; it's time a thorough inquiry is conducted into suicide, its causes, prevention and mental health failings must be a part of this," Mr Green said.
CASPER aims to achieve a voice for families bereaved by suicide and to ensure they are accorded similar rights of families who were victims of crime.
What CASPER Believe:
Knowledge is power
Suicide is a social, not medical, issue.
Empowered, well informed families and communities are the key to suicide prevention
Suicide flourishes in silence.
Current suicide prevention strategies do not, and can not, work.
What CASPER does:
Gather and analyse national and international information on suicide and its prevention.
Put the information into a format able to be shared with those who can make a difference - families and the community.
Lobby for changes to legislation, policy and practice.
Support families seeking truth, justice and accountability.
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Yet another scientology
Yet another scientology (CCHR) front group. They have no shame and they prey of the weak.
Everyone knows Scientology
Everyone knows Scientology is behind CCHR, it's all over their literature, and they even run ads on TV saying it in the US. "Front" groups hide their connections. Be anti-CCHR if you want, and anti-any religion you want, but get your facts straight. I've met Steve Green and he is someone who really cares about people's lives.
At least their statements
At least their statements make sense and clearly these views deserved to be aired.
What is CASPER going to do
What is CASPER going to do when they find its **NZ FAMILY Law and Social Policy** at fault.
When will the Govt listen and take the Fight, Profit, Careers and Anti-Family agends from current Law and Policy.
The way fwd is to Enshrine real **Equal Parenting** from conception deep within GLOBAL Family Law and Social Policy - Slowly our FAMILIES will recover
Onward - Equal Parenting @ Ration Shed BLOG - Jim - www.rationshed.wordpress.com
Well done to Steve Green. He
Well done to Steve Green. He has campaigned tirelessly in New Zealand for years to help give voice to those betrayed and failed by the psychiatric industry. Every life saved by the actions of CASPER is proof there are better ways to help those in need than reliance on drugs. It restores faith in humanity that humanity can be used to help. Congratulations to all concerned.
CASPER is not about saving
CASPER is not about saving youth from suicide, its about gathering in vulnerable people and turning them into scientologists. Parents of suicide victims are a nice easy target...
Scientology is full of
Scientology is full of natural fertilizer, the highest rates of suicide in the Western Hemisphere are amongst poor children in South America, who barely have access to physical health care, much less mental health care.
The only people who have anything good to say about CCHR, or Scientology, are Scientologists.
I cannot believe the
I cannot believe the ignorance. I do not agree with scientologies doctrine at all. But give credit where credit is due, their knowledge and research on the Myths of Psychiatry are profound.
It is true that psychiatry and mental diseases are a total myth and a money making excercise. Their influence in governments are mind boggling, as they are the only industry in the world that governments refuse to investigate despite the evidence and research available. Too much money is involved.
Psychiatrists are destroying mainly our youth through their dangerous non existing diagnostic methodology that claim to be a science, without any scientific evidence to back their theories.
The inventions of mental illnesses are displayed in the Diagnostic Statistical Manuel, where over 374 mental disorders are described without one scientifically researched case study to prove that psychotropic drugs can cure any form of human behaviour.
No behaviour can ever be a mental disease it is not what diseases are. You can Hate Scientology but wake up to the truth as you cannot dispute the facts.
Those who began CASPER are
Those who began CASPER are real people who genuinely believe that there is a need for support of the families of suicide victims and that information is the key to a preventative strategy.
How can you support someone if you've never been educated about the signs to look out for and the supports which can be put in place? The silence about suicide is akin to sending people into the wilderness without a first aid kit, map or tramping boots - it means that those who have 'been there' cannot share their stories or explain to others the things that were (in hindsight) clear warning signs.
The invalidity of the experiences from those who have 'been there' is part of what CASPER is fighting. This group is about informing others. CASPER's information is well researched and from reliable sources in NZ and abroad.
Take the time to do your own research. CASPER is not a scientology front group (any more than the ProLife groups are a front for traditional religious organisations) it just happens to share a belief that the issue of suicide could be dealt with as a social issue in NZ.
The Greatest Deception of
The Greatest Deception of All Times.
I have been studying psychology, sociology and human functioning for the past 10-12 years by starting off with psychology. I agree that scientology's spiritual doctrine is not something I would recommend.
However there view on psychotropic mental behavior is the truth and they have researched the subject well and without doubt. It is true that there is not a single test in the world to check the chemical imbalances in the brain. If it is not in the blood, xray or urine sample a disease does not exist. Period.
The Human being is a unique complexed Being and because we are all uniquely different, it becmes impossible to quantify human behavior through a norm. Not one single psychometric meaurement tool can measure a norm as there is not a starting point or ending point to any unique human behavior. The fact that psychotropic drugs have proved to be contributing factors to suicide both in teenagers and adults around the world and that they market them under the pretences of the medical sciences.
It is true that there is no evidence or proof that these have any heeling properties. Human behavior is based on inner feelings and belief systems and no tablet or drug can remedy inner feelings or beliefs. False beliefs are rife as most people that I have researched do not research the facts for themselves but choose to believe; that because Psychiatrist call themselves Doctors or Specialists that they are scientifically trained in a Mental Medical Science. When in fact there is no science behind psychotropic diseases at all, they are deceivers and marketers for the drug companies. Do not take my word or any one elses word, but research the facts for your self.
Ask any Psychiatrist for a blood test or any other test to prove you have a mental disorder such as Bipolar, ADHD, Social Anxiety Disorders or any other of the over 374 so called mental diseases which have been invented for the purpose of deceiving people into believing that they are mentally ill and all these so called diseases are laid out in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. No behavior is a disease and they cannot prove one, that is right not even one - out of 374 invented mental disorders. Check out the facts it could save your or your loveones life. They are hoping to hook you on drugs for life as the side effects of the psychotropic drugs leads to other problems which needs another drug and so on and so forth.
So the CCHR has done a great job in exposing the fraud presented as mental diseases believable because people have been fooled into believing it is a mental disease instead of a false inner perception.
Thank you CCHR for exposing this deception.
The Greatest Deception of
The Greatest Deception of All Times.
I have been studying psychology, sociology and human functioning for the past 10-12 years by starting off with psychology. I agree that scientology's spiritual doctrine is not something I would recommend.
However there view on psychotropic mental behavior is the truth and they have researched the subject well and without doubt. It is true that there is not a single test in the world to check the chemical imbalances in the brain. If it is not in the blood, xray or urine sample a disease does not exist. Period.
The Human being is a unique complexed Being and because we are all uniquely different, it becmes impossible to quantify human behavior through a norm. Not one single psychometric meaurement tool can measure a norm as there is not a starting point or ending point to any unique human behavior. The fact that psychotropic drugs have proved to be contributing factors to suicide both in teenagers and adults around the world and that they market them under the pretences of the medical sciences.
It is true that there is no evidence or proof that these have any heeling properties. Human behavior is based on inner feelings and belief systems and no tablet or drug can remedy inner feelings or beliefs. False beliefs are rife as most people that I have researched do not research the facts for themselves but choose to believe; that because Psychiatrist call themselves Doctors or Specialists that they are scientifically trained in a Mental Medical Science. When in fact there is no science behind psychotropic diseases at all, they are deceivers and marketers for the drug companies. Do not take my word or any one elses word, but research the facts for your self.
Ask any Psychiatrist for a blood test or any other test to prove you have a mental disorder such as Bipolar, ADHD, Social Anxiety Disorders or any other of the over 374 so called mental diseases which have been invented for the purpose of deceiving people into believing that they are mentally ill and all these so called diseases are laid out in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. No behavior is a disease and they cannot prove one, that is right not even one - out of 374 invented mental disorders. Check out the facts it could save your or your loveones life. They are hoping to hook you on drugs for life as the side effects of the psychotropic drugs leads to other problems which needs another drug and so on and so forth.
So the CCHR has done a great job in exposing the fraud presented as mental diseases believable because people have been fooled into believing it is a mental disease instead of a false inner perception.
Thank you CCHR for exposing this deception.
The Greatest Deception of
The Greatest Deception of All Times.
I have been studying psychology, sociology and human functioning for the past 10-12 years by starting off with psychology. I agree that scientology's spiritual doctrine is not something I would recommend.
However there view on psychotropic mental behavior is the truth and they have researched the subject well and without doubt. It is true that there is not a single test in the world to check the chemical imbalances in the brain. If it is not in the blood, xray or urine sample a disease does not exist. Period.
The Human being is a unique complexed Being and because we are all uniquely different, it becmes impossible to quantify human behavior through a norm. Not one single psychometric meaurement tool can measure a norm as there is not a starting point or ending point to any unique human behavior. The fact that psychotropic drugs have proved to be contributing factors to suicide both in teenagers and adults around the world and that they market them under the pretences of the medical sciences.
It is true that there is no evidence or proof that these have any heeling properties. Human behavior is based on inner feelings and belief systems and no tablet or drug can remedy inner feelings or beliefs. False beliefs are rife as most people that I have researched do not research the facts for themselves but choose to believe; that because Psychiatrist call themselves Doctors or Specialists that they are scientifically trained in a Mental Medical Science. When in fact there is no science behind psychotropic diseases at all, they are deceivers and marketers for the drug companies. Do not take my word or any one elses word, but research the facts for your self.
Ask any Psychiatrist for a blood test or any other test to prove you have a mental disorder such as Bipolar, ADHD, Social Anxiety Disorders or any other of the over 374 so called mental diseases which have been invented for the purpose of deceiving people into believing that they are mentally ill and all these so called diseases are laid out in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. No behavior is a disease and they cannot prove one, that is right not even one - out of 374 invented mental disorders. Check out the facts it could save your or your loveones life. They are hoping to hook you on drugs for life as the side effects of the psychotropic drugs leads to other problems which needs another drug and so on and so forth.
So the CCHR has done a great job in exposing the fraud presented as mental diseases believable because people have been fooled into believing it is a mental disease instead of a false inner perception.
Thank you CCHR for exposing this deception.