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...
Remembering a mother with love and grief
My Mum died suddenly and alone in a room in a psychiatric hospital when she was just 52, on 12th October 2001. She was...
The price of breaking the silence of abuse: dignity, justice and recovery
We live in a culture of silence, and this is something that affects many of us from childhood. The struggle to end this silence...
Challenging the status quo around eating disorder treatment
This post might be considered politically incorrect, but challenging the status quo has always been my specialty, dating back to my teenage years when...
Making sense of ‘word salad’ and hearing voices
The easiest way to shut voices up is reconciliation, like if a voice is screaming at you try and trace back what you did...