Part 1: Neurodiversity—what exactly does it mean?
Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing a four-part series on neurodiversity over the next four weeks. The series was...
Unquestioningly striving to adapt to harmful circumstances may be self-harm
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary resilience comes from the Latin “resileins” and “resilire”. Derived from “re” meaning “back” and “salire” meaning “to jump...
Why the fail, why the lacklustre drug-heavy mental health services?
It’s been on my mind: what do these labels matter – whether I have ‘unusual sensory experiences’, am ‘schizophrenic ‘, ‘shitso’ ,‘voice-hearer’ or ‘on...
How I learned to safely taper off psychiatric drugs
It was May 21st, 2019, when I woke up in a strange hotel-like room drenched in sweat, fully clothed with a winter jacket on...
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...