Mad in Ireland interview: We “criticise existing approaches to mental health care and highlight...
Although Jennifer Hough’s older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. “To...
Offering young people alternatives to traditional diagnostic narratives
Removal of diagnostic labels
We, as practitioners, like to imagine a world where diagnostic labels of “disorder” are no longer required. We feel that such...
New Script for mental health campaign – steps to a wellbeing rights framework
Mad in Ireland is happy to share details of the Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) campaign Give 5: Steps to a Wellbeing...
Notes on psychiatric hospital: I am looking for people I miss
I am looking for Sam.
I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. She was very funny, beautiful and...
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...