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...
There are “too many people being labelled, categorised into boxes, prescribed medication”
Psychiatry = diagnosis/labels.
Here in Ireland we're moving away from this type of terminology and using language like mental health instead of psychiatric.
Personally, I'm against...
Finding meaning and healing outside of ‘isolating’ psychiatric system
My walks of life got me into an exceptional position where I was given up by the medical establishment by means of the psychiatric...
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...