14.1 C
Dublin
Thursday, 28, March, 2024

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...

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...

“Mostly it’s the overmedicating that steals lives, not the distress of the mental health”

Elaine Browne, peer support worker Perspective peer support and wellbeing centre opened officially in October 2019. Before then it had been a developing peer practice...

Tips for sleeping well: stress and trauma can have a huge negative impact on...

Since my previous and first piece written for Mad In Ireland last year, I bit the bullet and resigned from 12+ years working as...