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 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...
Surviving the system: “I obeyed all instructions in swallowing drug after drug”
In his poem The Forge, the Irish Nobel Prizewinner Seamus Heaney wrote:
"All I know is a door into the dark"
And it was into the...
Peer Support Working in Mental Health: A system in need of change?
This is written from lived experience of mental ill health and also in the involvement of training Peer Support Workers. In this post Martha...
Plant medicine, psychiatry and me
Owen Ó Tuama
This story begins in 1994, when I first began to hear voices and see visions. I received psychiatric treatment for five months...