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...
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...
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...
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...
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...