Finding meaning and healing outside of ‘isolating’ psychiatric system
My walks of life got me into an exceptional position where I was given up by the medical establishment by means of the psychiatric...
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...
The politics and power of hearing voices
A lot of voice hearers have voices that are persecutory in nature although it is worth remembering that some people are comfortable with this...
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...
Peer Support Working in Mental Health: A system in need of change?
This is written from lived experience of mental ill health and also in the involvement of training Peer Support Workers. In this post Martha...