Part 1: Neurodiversity—what exactly does it mean?
Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing a four-part series on neurodiversity over the next four weeks. The series was...
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...
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...
Why the fail, why the lacklustre drug-heavy mental health services?
It’s been on my mind: what do these labels matter – whether I have ‘unusual sensory experiences’, am ‘schizophrenic ‘, ‘shitso’ ,‘voice-hearer’ or ‘on...
A psychotic experience can help to process difficult memories
The title of this article - a psychotic experience can help to process difficult memories - is from Jaakko Seikkula’s book Dialogue Improves—but Why?...