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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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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 Ni Greachain -
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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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‘The biggest struggle I have faced is the perceived stigma that...

Cathal O'Reilly -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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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