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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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Following the breadcrumbs, Traumality and a total eclipse of the roots

Natalie Collins -
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Nobody told me to do this: What it means to be...

Rupinder Legha -
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Challenging the medical model of mental health: A call for...

Mad in Ireland -
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The loneliness of freedom

Izzy Neenan -
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A moving reflection from Dirk Corstens on the passing of Marius...

Mad in Ireland -
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New Petition; Save Our Supplements by Health Stores Ireland

Mad in Ireland -
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Mad in Norway International Film Festival

Mad in Ireland -
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Networking and peer groups spearheading all-Ireland community development

Jeroen Holtkamp -
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Peer Support 101

Lisa Archibald -
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Antidepressants

Growing up on SSRIs: A withdrawal, taper & recovery story

Anders Sorensen -
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To be seen without being evaluated

Izzy Neenan -
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Childhood trauma and recent stressors rarely addressed; ECT given instead

John Read -
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How mental health ideology perpetuates a war on emotions

Dr Sami Timimi -
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Why I lost faith in psychiatry as a mental health nurse

Emma McArdle -
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Finding your tribe: Stories are the core of social psychiatry, not...

Owen Ó Tuama -
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A lack of insight? — Understanding some ways inadvertent iatrogenic harm...

Neil Broatch -
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Final call for abstracts Critical Voices Network Ireland Conference

Mad in Ireland -
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Nutrient therapy and mental distress: nourishing wellbeing

Martha Griffin -
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Confessions of an ad writer: How I helped turn atypical antipsychotics...

Lydia Green -
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Reflecting on traumatic growth

Amy Finn -
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Counter archiving “mental health records”

Jessie Downey -
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Whose lack of Insight? – Understanding some ways inadvertent iatrogenic harm...

Neil Broatch -
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Call for documentary exploring mental health in Ireland

Mad in Ireland -
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When trust shatters: The hidden trauma of social betrayal

Amaal Zaki -
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Criticisms that establishment psychiatry can and cannot tolerate

Bruce Levine -
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A community group writes their script for community health & wellbeing

Clóda Ní Ghréacháin -
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MindFreedom Ireland protests against ECT at the GPO on May 31st...

Jeroen Holtkamp -
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Interview with Mary Ann Kenny, author of ‘The Episode’

Mad in Ireland -
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PSI-STAR Project with Royal College of Surgeons Ireland – hearing...

Owen Ó Tuama -
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The price of breaking the silence of abuse: dignity, justice and...

Laura Lopez-Aybar -
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“Power is vested in one profession when in fact mental health...

Jennifer Hough -
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Rethinking mental health in Ireland: Why not a Trieste-style approach?

Mark McCollum -
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Mad in Ireland interview: We “criticise existing approaches to mental health...

MIA Editors -
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Offering young people alternatives to traditional diagnostic narratives

Cian Aherne -
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New Script for mental health campaign – steps to a wellbeing...

Mad in Ireland -
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Notes on psychiatric hospital: I am looking for people I miss

Ekaterina Netchitailova -
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Challenging the status quo around eating disorder treatment

Marie Campion -
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MindFreedom Ireland’s letter to Brendan O’Connor

Mary Maddock -
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Give Five – a human rights approach to mental health

Martha Griffin -
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Painting a healthier future: Ireland’s artistic approach to wellbeing 

Annie Button -
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World Voices Congress 2024 – Mark Mc Collum and Owen...

Owen Ó Tuama -
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Improvements needed to fully reform the Mental Health Act, says advocate

Ber Grogan -
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The ‘not so clinical psychologists’ offer fresh perspective on mental health...

Cian Aherne -
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Part 2: Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’

Peter Brown -
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Faith healing in India: An ancient way of tending to madness

Rohini Roy -
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Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’

Owen Ó Tuama -
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“Disordered eating is a symptom showing us that a person is...

Marie Campion -
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Part 2: Are we all neurodivergent nowadays?

Lucy Johnstone -
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Part 1: Neurodiversity—what exactly does it mean?

Lucy Johnstone -
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Unquestioningly striving to adapt to harmful circumstances may be self-harm

Velma Saint Claire -
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Why the fail, why the lacklustre drug-heavy mental health services?

Peter Brown -
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How I learned to safely taper off psychiatric drugs

Jørgen Kjønø -
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Making sense of ‘word salad’ and hearing voices

Peter Brown -
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When HVN Ireland meets HVN Athens

Owen Ó Tuama -
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Putting the pieces back together: Working through being pathologised and silenced

Clóda Ní Ghréacháin -
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A psychotic experience can help to process difficult memories

Mad in Ireland -
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Howl from a survivor: ‘Medicalised psychiatry is a failed entity’

Kieran Staunton -
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Is there any point?

Peter Brown -
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Opinion: Stephen Fry says psychiatry saved him, but what about listening...

Owen Ó Tuama -
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Tips for sleeping well: stress and trauma can have a huge...

Emma McArdle -
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“First, do no harm.” I tried to complain. “Policy,” they said.

Nicola Clare -
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A glossary of ‘mad’ terms in Gaelic -an ancient empowering language

Owen Ó Tuama -
2
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Social connections and discovering ‘true identity’ central to the new paradigm

Jeroen Holtkamp -
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Finding confidence to come off medication and gain inner peace

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

Damien Walshe -
1
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Existential issues are part of the human condition

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

Owen Ó Tuama -
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Remembering a mother with love and grief

Anna O'Reilly -
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The biomedical model of psychiatry and the right to refuse medication

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

Emma McArdle -
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Finding meaning and healing outside of ‘isolating’ psychiatric system

Jeroen Holtkamp -
1
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A self-help version of EMDR could make healing from trauma easier

[email protected] -
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The politics and power of hearing voices

Peter Brown -
1
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Surviving the system: “I obeyed all instructions in swallowing drug after...

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

Martha Griffin -
0
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Plant medicine, psychiatry and me 

Owen Ó Tuama -
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“Mostly it’s the overmedicating that steals lives, not the distress of...

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

John Kelly -
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