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...
Peer Support Working in Mental Health: A system in need of change?
This is written from lived experience of mental ill health and also in the involvement of training Peer Support Workers. In this post Martha...
There are “too many people being labelled, categorised into boxes, prescribed medication”
Psychiatry = diagnosis/labels.
Here in Ireland we're moving away from this type of terminology and using language like mental health instead of psychiatric.
Personally, I'm against...
Coming off lithium ‘lifted the veil’ of tranquillising medication for a more fulfilling life
A personal story from John Kelly
You have bipolar disorder? No need to be so bloody sheepish about it!’ Insisted Mattias bullishly, on hearing why...
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...