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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 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...

Finding confidence to come off medication and gain inner peace

This piece is fuelled by an interaction with a psychiatrist that wanted to put me on extra medication because I openly told him that...

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...

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...