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MindFreedom Shield Launched Online
MindFreedom Members may now use a convenient online registration form to sign up for the MindFreedom Shield, a mutual support network to nonviolently defend one another from unwanted psychiatric procedures.
Gabe Hadd is a MindFreedom member who was assisted by a MFI-Shield alert. Gabe found resources to escape over state-lines and evade his forced outpatient psychiatric drugging.
Krista Erickson, MindFreedom board member and chair of the MindFreedom Shield Program, announced that members may now conveniently sign up for the program online. Attorney Jim Gottstein, founder of MFI Sponsor Group PsychRights, provided much-appreciated assistance and advice in setting up the original program, and moving it online.
Welcome, information and public director for the MindFreedom Shield.
MindFreedom International issues alerts about individuals at risk of or
currently experiencing involuntary psychiatric procedures, including on
an outpatient basis while living peacefully in the community in their
own residences.
For
example, occasionally these public alerts have led to some members who
are experiencing coerced outpatient psychiatric drugging to find
resources assisting them to relocate to avoid their forced psychiatric
procedures. This in no way implies that MindFreedom, its board or
members -- nor the individuals escaping forced outpatient psychiatry --
are in any way involved in, aiding, supporting or condoning any illegal
activity, directly or indirectly.
MindFreedom International has a track record of taking constructive,
nonviolent action when we are notified that a person is being subjected
to coerced or forced psychiatric procedures. In order to better utilize
our very limited resources, we have established the MindFreedom Shield
Program.
The MindFreedom Shield Program is a coordinated registration system and
solidarity network of MindFreedom members who want to have as much
protection as possible from coerced or forced psychiatric treatment.
The MindFreedom Shield is not meant to replace a formal psychiatric "advance
directive," which is a legal document we highly recommend people fill
out. MindFreedom does not have the resources to assist in completing an
advance directive.
If a member who has registered a MindFreedom Shield is, to the best of our ability, verifiably found
by MindFreedom to be subjected to coerced or forced psychiatric
treatment, an alert will be sent to the MindFreedom Solidarity Network
on that person's behalf. Everyone in the MindFreedom Solidarity Network
is expected to participate in constructive, nonviolent action
recommended in the alert received to support the person for whom an
alert has been issued.
While
no one can guarantee the results of issuing human rights alerts, it has
been
our experience that public awareness can often reduce, if not end,
situations of coerced or forced psychiatric treatment. In any case, the
MindFreed Shield serves to educate the public that coerced and forced
psychiatric procedures continue to harm the human rights of people
internationally.
