Give Five – a human rights approach to mental health
A reflection, one month on from Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR), New Script World Mental Health Day in Belfast.
On October 10th some...
Unquestioningly striving to adapt to harmful circumstances may be self-harm
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary resilience comes from the Latin “resileins” and “resilire”. Derived from “re” meaning “back” and “salire” meaning “to jump...
Plant medicine, psychiatry and me
Owen Ó Tuama
This story begins in 1994, when I first began to hear voices and see visions. I received psychiatric treatment for five months...
Part 2: Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’
The most dangerous night of my life I had been smoking weed, I had been hearing my friends trying to scare me and threaten...
A community group writes their script for community health & wellbeing
I am delighted to be part of an active voluntary community organisation in the North East who are hosting a Coffee Morning on Wednesday,...