Wellness café’s to support recovery are ‘so much more than a cup of tea’
The aim of this article is to set out the development of an innovative, sustainable model of recovery through the setup of peer led...
False narrative about psychiatry serves no one
When the media tell of a serious harm of a psychiatric drug, they follow a standard script, which involves that they must also praise...
Irish psychiatry says chemical imbalance is ‘a figure of speech,’ so – what now?
The chemical imbalance theory of depression - what was once considered the gold standard reason for why people take antidepressants, was, apparently, ‘a figure...
Unravelling ‘peer imposter syndrome’ and coming to understand the experience of mental health distress
It doesn’t rear its ugly head much (anymore) for me, but it did for a while. So, let’s start with a full disclosure: I...
The Battle of the Peer
Peer support is simple. It is the very natural, very normal, coming together of humans where they share their experiences of living with very...