MFI News: Give Mental Health System a Truth Injection

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MindFreedom International - 12 February 2009
News: Mind Your Freedom in Mental Health
http://www.mindfreedom.org/truth - please forward

NEWS RELEASE

    MindFreedom International Starts Campaign to "Bust Myths" in  
Mental Health System

    New free "Truth Injection" brochure can be downloaded, handed  
out, posted.

Want a unique way to celebrate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln,  
and his reputation for honesty?

Starting today, a human rights coalition is making a free flyer  
available for download to "bust myths" in the mental health system.

A PDF of the two-page flyer can be downloaded for free here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/truth


    Examples of myths that need busting:


    *** "You have a 'mental illness' that is caused by a biochemical  
imbalance...

    *** "The medication we give you will correct your 'biochemical  
imbalance'...

    *** "You will always have to take psychiatric medications...”


The brochure was researched by MindFreedom Lane County Affiliate, and  
can be used internationally.

Ron Unger, a mental health counselor who is affiliate coordinator,  
led the effort to create the flyer, working with psychiatric survivors.

Said Ron, "The brochure does a good job of conveying the kinds of  
deceptions that people in the mental health system are commonly  
exposed to, compared to the kind of information people would hear if  
they were told the truth."

Links to citations and sources are also provided to back up the facts  
in the MindFreedom "Truth Injection" brochure.

The truth campaign launches today 12 February 2009, Abraham Lincoln's  
200th birthday, in honor of his reputation as "Honest Abe."

If Abe were alive today, he may need this brochure.

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    *** ACTION *** ACTION *** ACTION ***

How to Download Your Truth Brochure:

For info on how to download the free MFI Truth Brochure, read the  
sources behind the facts, and read a plain text accessible version,  
click here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/truth

Founded in 1986, MindFreedom International is a 100 percent  
independent non-profit coalition uniting members, Affiliates and  
Sponsors to win human rights and choice in mental health care. The UN  
accredits MFI as an NGO.

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MindFreedom International has, for 23 years, been 100 percent  
independently funded by members, supporters and a few foundations,  
with zero funding from corporations and the mental health system.

Everyone: Join, donate or renew early to MindFreedom International now.

MindFreedom International is a nonprofit coalition united to win  
activist campaigns for human rights and alternatives in mental health.

Open to the public, most members identify themselves as individuals  
who have personally experienced human rights violations in the mental  
health system.

Benefits include MindFreedom Journal, special web and e-mail  
networking, discount on http://www.madmarket.org purchases,  
MindFreedom Shield, member services office... and a nonviolent  
revolution in mental health.

Support voices for choices in mental health!

Mind Your Freedom, everyone, now!

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