Is there any point?
A lot of us pose this question in our lives, but when it is applied to recovery from a psychosis, is there any point? ...
The price of breaking the silence of abuse: dignity, justice and recovery
We live in a culture of silence, and this is something that affects many of us from childhood. The struggle to end this silence...
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...
“First, do no harm.” I tried to complain. “Policy,” they said.
The tale contained in this piece took place amidst an entire summer of mayhem. I was later told it was a ‘dysphoric mania’. As...
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...