There are “too many people being labelled, categorised into boxes, prescribed medication”
Psychiatry = diagnosis/labels.
Here in Ireland we're moving away from this type of terminology and using language like mental health instead of psychiatric.
Personally, I'm against...
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...