Existential issues are part of the human condition
There are a lot of assumed biological aetiologies and many cytotoxic pharma treatments coerced and forced onto people due to the discrimination from people...
Network supports people to ‘achieve greater agency in their own recovery’
by Owen O'Tuama, Mary Farrelly & Harry Gijbels
A voice-hearers perspective:
I’ve heard voices for 30 years. Because of enormous stigma and the taboo nature of...
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 biomedical model of psychiatry and the right to refuse medication
As an inpatient, I have seen the prevailing biomedical model of psychiatry and how it compels doctors and nurses to act. The cavalier attitude...
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...