Making sense of ‘word salad’ and hearing voices
The easiest way to shut voices up is reconciliation, like if a voice is screaming at you try and trace back what you did...
When HVN Ireland meets HVN Athens
Recently I as Chairperson of Hearing Voices Network Ireland (HVNI) got to spend some time with Hearing Voices Network Athens(HVNA), in Athens. I received...
Putting the pieces back together: Working through being pathologised and silenced
I was a busy, full-time working mother in my late twenties when I experienced a life crisis. I went to my GP, supported by...
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?...
Howl from a survivor: ‘Medicalised psychiatry is a failed entity’
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” Allan Ginsberg Howl
We are not mad. It is the rest of society that...