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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...

Existential issues are part of the human condition

There are a lot of assumed biological aetiologies and many cytotoxic pharma treatments coerced and forced onto people due to the discrimination from people...

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? ...

Social connections and discovering ‘true identity’ central to the new paradigm

Recently I attended a symposium organised by Community Work Ireland which was called ‘Shifting the Paradigm on Mental Health -A Call to Action-‘. The...

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

I entered the training for EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) with extreme skepticism, thinking it was the gimmickiest therapy technique ever proposed on...