Putting the pieces back together: Working through being pathologised and silenced
I was a busy, full-time working mother in my late twenties when I experienced a life crisis. I went to my GP, supported by...
A psychotic experience can help to process difficult memories
The title of this article - a psychotic experience can help to process difficult memories - is from Jaakko Seikkula’s book Dialogue Improves—but Why?...
Howl from a survivor: ‘Medicalised psychiatry is a failed entity’
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” Allan Ginsberg Howl
We are not mad. It is the rest of society that...
Is there any point?
A lot of us pose this question in our lives, but when it is applied to recovery from a psychosis, is there any point? ...
Opinion: Stephen Fry says psychiatry saved him, but what about listening to those it...
As a voice-hearer of 30 years – and 27 years as a user/survivor of psychiatry - I could say, like Stephen Fry did this...