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

Language and Framing: talking about what we mean when we talk about “disability” The language we use is influenced by what we know (or think...

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

In his poem The Forge, the Irish Nobel Prizewinner Seamus Heaney wrote:  "All I know is a door into the dark"  And it was into the...

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...

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

Gaelic or Irish was taught to most of us here in Ireland in a repressive & sometimes violent way. I know people who were...

The ‘not so clinical psychologists’ offer fresh perspective on mental health difficulties

TikTok/Instagram accounts offer a different way to look at emotions, therapy and mental health difficulties We have long felt a certain discomfort with our titles...