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...
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 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...
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? ...
Finding confidence to come off medication and gain inner peace
This piece is fuelled by an interaction with a psychiatrist that wanted to put me on extra medication because I openly told him that...