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Welcome to the MindFreedom Shield Program

by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-03-04 03:08

Members of MindFreedom International use mutual support to help protect one another from unwanted coerced psychiatric procedures.

News update: Click here to read 4 March 2008 News Release on new Task Force on Advocacy & Activism.

All for one and one for all.

MindFreedom members may register for the MindFreedom Shield Program for free. If a registered member is threatened with or experiences psychiatric procedures against his or her will, the member may activate the MindFreedom Shield Solidarity Network.

The MindFreedom Shield sends out public human rights alerts to help expose the coercion and apply nonviolent pressure to defend the member's human rights. For example, pictured on the right is Gabe Hadd, a MindFreedom member in Michigan who was being forcibly drugged on an outpatient basis. That is, he was court-ordered to take psychiatric drugs in his own home. MFI Shield sent out one of its first alerts on behalf of Gabe, and Gabe was able to find resources to create an "underground railroad" over state lines and escape his outpatient forced drugging. His story was featured on the front page of a Wall St. Journal article about forced outpatient drugging.

A directory of MindFreedom members who have registered for the Shield Program and chose to make their names public.

More information about the MindFreedom Shield Program.

Current MindFreedom members may conveniently register online for the MindFreedom Shield.

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Dorothy Dundas

While institutionalized for three years as an adolescent in the 1960's, MindFreedom member Dorothy Washburn Dundas was labeled a "schizophrenic" and forced to undergo 40 combined insulin coma-electroshock "treatments." Dorothy says, "I experienced and witnessed many atrocities. I believe that luck, determination, and my own anger and one compassionate advocate were my best friends on the road to my ultimate survival and freedom." Through a number of op-ed pieces, she has voiced her opposition to abusive psychiatric practices. Her poster, "Behind Locked Doors," which she created from her hospital records, is used in training programs. Dorothy lives in the Boston area where she has raised her four wonderful children. She founded and is the sole driver in her "safe, friendly and reliable" car service called The Crystal Lake Express.

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