Blogs

Essays by a diverse collection of writers, which aim to change the professional and public discourse about emotional distress and unusual experiences. To submit a blog for consideration, please read our submission guidelines.

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Finding confidence to come off medication and gain inner peace

Marie McGrath - 19/04/2023

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What does the social model of disability have to do with...

Damien Walshe - 12/03/2023

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Existential issues are part of the human condition

Daniel McLaughlin - 01/03/2023

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Network supports people to ‘achieve greater agency in their own recovery’

Owen Ó Tuama - 19/02/2023

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Remembering a mother with love and grief

Anna O'Reilly - 08/02/2023

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The biomedical model of psychiatry and the right to refuse medication

Phil Nolin - 22/12/2022

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There are “too many people being labelled, categorised into boxes, prescribed...

Emma McArdle - 06/11/2022

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Finding meaning and healing outside of ‘isolating’ psychiatric system

Jeroen Holtkamp - 29/10/2022

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A self-help version of EMDR could make healing from trauma easier

davidb@se-rem.com - 22/10/2022

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The politics and power of hearing voices

Peter Brown - 12/10/2022

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Surviving the system: “I obeyed all instructions in swallowing drug after...

Mary Maddock - 14/09/2022

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Peer Support Working in Mental Health: A system in need of...

Martha Griffin - 10/08/2022

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Plant medicine, psychiatry and me

Owen Ó Tuama - 10/08/2022

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“Mostly it’s the overmedicating that steals lives, not the distress of...

Elaine Brown - 10/08/2022

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Coming off lithium ‘lifted the veil’ of tranquillising medication for a...

John Kelly - 10/08/2022