To see the Official Statement & Plea For Help sent to
Human Rights Organizations
click here.
This woman
needs our help. Please take two minutes to copy and
send the letter below in blue to the addresses
listed with the form letter, or write your own. For
all the times we have signed petitions and forwarded
junk emails surely we can all take a few minutes and
write an email on this topic and help save a life.
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If you know the situation of Rebecca Merhav, you
don't need reminding. At the bottom below my email I
have cut and pasted instructions from Ben on who
should receive a protest letter requesting that the
psychiatrists let Rebecca go. There are details
about the drugs they are forcing her to take and
their effects below that. PLEASE FORWARD
THIS EMAIL OR POST IT ON FORUMS TO ANYONE AND
EVERYONE YOU THINK HAS AN INKLING OF A CHANCE OF
HELPING.You
don't have to write your own custom letter, a sample
letter is all that is needed. It is written out
below (in blue) and it will only take two minutes
for you to send it, with a copy to
Ben Merhav.
benjaminmerhav@hotmail.com (and
me if you want)
amy@uniteforlife.org
For those of
you who need to be informed for the first time who
Rebecca Merhav is, she has been subject to a CTO for
over 30 years in
Australia, which is a Compulsory Treatment
Order or a legal restraint that lets psychiatrists
forcibly "treat" a patient. Rebecca became a patient
in psychiatry because she was brought to a hospital
by her mother as a teenager when she was too defiant
and refused to do her chores. This could be any one
of the teenagers I have met in my short 29 years on
this planet and it reminds me of all the poor kids
that get labeled today with ADHD or bipolar when
they are 2 or 3, before they can even ride a bike.
The doctors
saw an opportunity to get an easy patient and they
have been in essence experimenting on Rebecca all
this time. If any psychiatric symptoms existed they
were brought on by original administration of
dangerous drugs. For a year or two they had her on
Clozapine, which I suppose after their experiment
was complete they agreed to discontinue. That is one
of the MOST dangerous medications there is and has
killed patients with just one dose if I am not
mistaken. But somehow Rebecca has survived all of
this. Every day of her life under this torture is
borrowed time due to the toxic drugs they are
pouring into her.
Now they are
forcing her to take Risperdal and Seroquel and have
locked her up in a psych ward indefinitely. The
clinic has always allowed her to be free to live in
her own apartment while they forced her to come to
the hospital or have someone come to her home to
forcibly medicate her. Now they claim that her
father can accompany her home but when he asks her
to come home with him over the phone, she does not
reply. It is possible that they have threatened to
further drug her into oblivion, use shock, rape,
torture, or murder her with other violent means.
Psychiatric hospitals can get away with abuse and
have done so numerous times.
Whatever is
going on there it is not in the best interest of the
patient. The doctors have been ignoring protest
emails for years. There is a chance that getting
more letters from people around the world will
convince them that the pressure is on and they need
to comply with Rebecca's wishes and Ben's wishes and
let her go and remove the CTO. You can read the
entire history of Rebecca's torture on Ben's blogs
which are all listed on the UNITE website at
http://www.uniteforlife.org/memberblogs.html#ben.
Or you can email him directly.
But most
importantly I am sure we can all agree that someone
like Rebecca who is an innocent person - a victim of
psychiatric torture - should not be subjected to the
experimental whims of the incredibly dangerous
psychiatric methods of "treatment" and their force
and threats.
Let's join
together and do everything we can to set Rebecca
free. We can do this as a symbol of our efforts for
all psychiatric victims. If we win this battle there
will be more momentum for us to do similar things to
save our own children from CPS, the courts, and exes
who want them drugged. We need attention,
cooperation, and a victory for human rights. Please
join and help us.
A message
protesting the intensified torture of Rebecca Merhav
was emailed by Kathryn Kinley, and I have uploaded
it on my blog
http://7thoutlawpsychiatry.blogspot.com/.
Yesterday I managed to contact Rebecca over the
phone for the first time. She sounded confused,
scared to death, and
completely overwhelmed. So much so, that my repeated
offer to her to accompany her back home was not
answered. Even
when I assured her that I have the agreement of the
Clinic's nurse for that, she did not believe me. I
was never as worried her
being in danger as I am now !
Each one of you with your mailing lists of
supporters ,colleagues and contact, can be very
helpful by emailing without delay
your protest letter to the email addresses listed in
my article/post on my above blog.
Miss Rebecca Merhav's
father has reported to
me the latest
psychiatric atrocity you
are perpetrating against
her under the false
cover of "treatment".
It must be obvious to
you that in doing so you
not only continue her
torture by the adverse
effects of the two
neuroleptics - the
Risperdal and the
Seroquel - and depriving
her of a chance to
return to normal life
following the tapering
off the poisons, you
are actually forcing on
her the risk of sudden
death!
Despite the numerous
urging-pleas by her
father on her behalf,
you continue to insist
on maintaining the CTO,
namely forcing her to
take more of the
psychiatric poisons,
rather than allow her to
detoxify her body and
help her return to
normal life.
Over 30 years of
psychiatric torture and
failure, including 12
months of "treatment" by
yourself,
only made things worse
for Rebecca, and surely,
having survived it all
Rebecca deserves NOW
better than that, even
from a psychiatric point
of view. She is not and
never was a danger to
herself or to anybody
else, so why force on
her torture and death
risks?
I protest your cynical
and cruel "treatment" of
Rebecca, and I demand
that you immediately
cancel the CTO, allow
her to gradually taper
off the psychiatric
poisons, and help her
return to normal life in
consultation with
herself and with her
father.
THE PSYCHIATRIC TORTURE
OF REBECCA MERHAV IS
ONCE MORE INTENSIFIED TO
THE DETRIMENT OF HER
WELLBEING, AND SHE IS AT
THE HIGH RISK OF BEING
CRUSHED TO DEATH AS A
RESULT !
by Justice Lover
Some 10 days ago Miss
Rebecca Merhav, the
daughter of Benjamin
Merhav, was told by the
state shrink ,who is in
charge of her under a
compulsory treatment
order, to leave her home
and stay at a
psychiatric institution.
Her father was not
informed of that until
about a week later, and
then only following his
phone call to the
shrink.
Her detention address
and the phone number to
contact her were denied
to him.
Further inquiries by him
revealed that she was
ordered to take 400 mg
of Serquel tablets per
day, in addition to the
75mg Risperdal
injections she was
forced to take every 10
days.
This is a very
dangerous, and very
horrible setback for
her, having endured the
Clozapine torture for
over 2 years and all the
psychiatric
experimentations forced
on her for the past 30
years.
Last week Rebecca's
father emailed the
following letter to the
treating shrink, with
copies to the Minister
for Mental Health in
Victoria, to the Chief
Psychiatrist there, and
to the Health Services
Commissioner there. Not
even a confirmation of
his letter was sent him
so far by any of them.
However, further phone
calls to the Chief
Psychiatrist' s office
by Benjamin revealed
that the Chief
Psychiatrist has already
rejected the letter, and
that he has no intention
to investigate
Benjamin's
complaint/appeal.
Following Benjamin's
letter below there is a
form of protest email to
be sent to the email
addresses listed there.
You are welcome to use
the proposed protest
letter or type your own
text of a protest letter
and send it urgently to
the email addresses
listed below, with a
copy to
ben.merhav@gmail. com.
Please act now !
Benjamin's letter :
" Dear Prof. K.
George,
I have addressed a copy
of my following letter
to the former Chief
Psychiatrist, not
knowing that he is no
longer holding this
position. The letter is
pasted below. I ask you,
therefore, to cancel the
CTO over my daughter, as
you have the power to do
so. Alternatively, I ask
you to advise Dr. Sally
Wilkins of Junction
Clinic to do so as early
as possible.
Thanking you in advance,
Benjamin Merhav
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Dr. Sally Wilkins,
I am alarmed, dismayed,
distressed, disappointed
and very worried about
the new "treatment" you
are forcing my daughter
to take, as part of your
experimentations with
her. This is a sever
case of misuse of your
legal power given to you
by the Mental Health
Act, as the psychiatrist
treating Rebecca. Are
over 30 years of
psychiatric torture and
experimentations that
she has endured so far
not enough ?
In reply to my call you
told me over the phone
that she herself chose
to go to that
psychiatric institution
where you arranged for
her to stay and take
more very dangerous
psychiatric drugs. You
also added that if she
would not be happy there
she would be free to go
back home any time. You
should know by now that
no patient under CTO is
free to do what they
consider best for them
to do. Rebecca sure
knows that, as she had
30 years of very bad
experience under CTO.
She knows, of course,
that the treating
psychiatrists and their
psychiatric nurses do
not like complaints,
much less patient's
disobedience, and she
has been powerless
against the psychiatric
machine, which has both
overt and covert
punishments at its
disposal (and her case,
with the full support of
her mother).
As I phoned the clinic
this morning I was told,
in reply to my
questions, that Rebecca
is now forced to take
another Atypical drug
(Seroquel, 250mg tablets
per day, to replace the
old Clozapine poison).
This in addition to the
10 day interval
Risperdal 75mg
injections. As you know,
Serquel is a very
dangerous neuroleptic,
and with many adverse
effects. Even the
FDA in the
USA states as follows
(with my emphasis ) :
http://www.fda.
gov/cder/ foi/label/
2004/20639se1-
017,016_seroquel
_lbl.pdf
"WARNINGS
Neuroleptic Malignant
Syndrome (NMS) A
potentially fatal
symptom complex
sometimes referred to as
Neuroleptic Malignant
Syndrome (NMS) has been
reported in association
with administration of
antipsychotic drugs,
including SEROQUEL.Rare cases of NMS
have been reported with
SEROQUEL. Clinical
manifestations of NMS
are hyperpyrexia, muscle
rigidity, altered mental
status, and evidence of
autonomic instability
(irregular pulse or
blood pressure,
tachycardia,
diaphoresis, and cardiac
dysrhythmia) .
Additional signs may
include elevated
creatine phosphokinase,
myoglobinuria
(rhabdomyolysis) and
acute renal failure. The
diagnostic evaluation of
patients with this
syndrome is complicated.
In arriving at a
diagnosis, it is
important to exclude
cases where the clinical
presentation includes
both serious medical
illness (eg, pneumonia,
systemic infection,
etc.) and untreated or
inadequately treated
extrapyramidal signs and
symptoms (EPS). Other
important considerations
in the differential
diagnosis include
central anticholinergic
toxicity, heat stroke,
drug fever and primary
central nervous system
(CNS) pathology."
At the same page the
FDA has the
following information :
"Post Marketing
Experience:
Adverse events reported
since market
introduction which were
temporally related to
SEROQUEL therapy
include:
leukopenia/neutrope nia.
If a patient develops a
low white cell count
consider discontinuation
of therapy. Possible
risk factors for
leukopenia/neutrope nia
include pre-existing low
white cell count and
history of drug induced
leukopenia/neutrope nia.
Other adverse events
reported since market
introduction, which were
temporally related to
SEROQUEL therapy, but
not necessarily
causally related,
include the following:
agranulocytosis,
anaphylaxis,
hyponatremia,
rhabdomyolysis, syndrome
of inappropriate
antidiuretic hormone
secretion (SIADH), and
Steven Johnson
syndrome (SJS)."
A law firm in the
USA, which has
vast legal experience in
law suits against drug
corporations, pasted the
piece of information on
its website as it is
below . According to
this information the
drug manufacturer
itself
changed the label on
Seroquel to include the
following (my emphasis )
:
"In January 2004,
AstraZeneca changed the
labeling on Seroquel®
to warn of the serious,
increased risk of
diabetes and related
health complications
such as hyperglycemia,
ketoacidosis,
coma and death."
"Seroquel®
(quetiapine fumarate),
manufactured by
AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals, is an
atypical antipsychotic
medication approved by
the
U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)
in 1997 to control the
symptoms of
schizophrenia and manic
episodes associated with
bipolar disorder.
Although approved
specifically for these
limited purposes, some
physicians have
prescribed Seroquel®
for "off-label" use
including sleep
disorders,
post-traumatic stress
disorder, obsessive
compulsive disorder and
other anxiety disorders.
Not long after Seroquel®
was approved for use,
evidence began to mount
regarding the serious
side effects associated
with it and other
similar medications. In
January 2004,
AstraZeneca changed the
labeling on Seroquel®
to warn of the serious,
increased risk of
diabetes and related
health complications
such as hyperglycemia,
ketoacidosis, coma and
death. In April 2005,
the
FDA ordered
AstraZeneca to add a
"black box warning" to
Seroquel®
labeling, informing
consumers about the
increased risk of death
from the drug. The
FDA also
emphasized at that time
that Seroquel®
was NOT approved to
treat elderly patients
with dementia. Although
studies have linked
Seroquel® to
diabetes, death and
other serious side
effects, the drug
remains on the market.
In 2004, soon after the
discovery of
diabetes-related
Seroquel®
side effects, a class
action lawsuit was filed
on behalf of all
patients who had taken
the drug. The lawsuit
sought the establishment
of a medical monitoring
fund which would provide
free, periodic testing
for diabetes and related
conditions for patients
taking Seroquel®.
Other Seroquel®
lawsuits have been filed
on behalf of individuals
who allegedly have been
seriously injured or
killed by Seroquel®
side effects.
If you or a loved one
is taking Seroquel®,
it is important to be
aware of these risks and
speak with your health
care professional to
learn more. It is also
crucial to speak with
your doctor before
starting, stopping or
otherwise modifying the
use of Seroquel®."
It is true that Rebecca
suffers from chronic
insomnia as a result of
being forced to take
Clozapine, Risperdal,
Flupenthixal and other
neuroleptics for many
years. Her body badly
needs detoxification,
physical activities,
community activities
etc. - whatever else
she thinks she needs
- rather than forcing
into her more
psychiatric poisons. She
is not a danger to the
community nor to
herself, and therefore
the CTO should be lifted
immediately to give her
a chance to return to
normal life !
Do not kill my daughter
!
Sincerely, Benjamin
Merhav"
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"mental health" groups funded by pharmaceuticals. Use the information on this site as
you see fit.
This website is intended to help existing groups work
together to combat psychiatry and psychiatric drugs as well as their
influence on our society and lives. Individuals with websites or
blogs and existing organizations are invited to list their
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