FACTS
AGAINST THEIR WILL
People around the world are receiving harmful psychiatric treatment against their will.
1 in 3
ECT VICTIMS
of the estimated 1 million who receive it annually worldwide, did so without their consent
70
PERCENT
increase in involuntary commitment in Germany over an eight-year period
10,000+
PEOPLE
in Australia per year are subject to compulsory psychiatric treatment in their own home
1,800
COMMIT SUICIDE
while hospitalized in the United States each year
195,000
BAKER ACTED
(involuntarily committed) in Florida, USA, in a single year
PUT AN END TO THE ABUSE
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