Improvements needed to fully reform the Mental Health Act, says advocate
Mental Health Reform (MHR) is Ireland's national coalition on mental health. I’ve been on the Policy, Advocacy and Research team for over 3 years now....
The ‘not so clinical psychologists’ offer fresh perspective on mental health difficulties
TikTok/Instagram accounts offer a different way to look at emotions, therapy and mental health difficulties
We have long felt a certain discomfort with our titles...
Faith healing in India: An ancient way of tending to madness
A small village in one of India’s southern states woke up to a tragic fire 23 years ago. Little did it know that this...
Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’
On hearing voices, dissociation & being labelled - ugh! - ‘paranoid schizophrenic’.
I may go about my life, like most other people, maintaining my place...
Research: Draft mental health law retains coercive elements, does not realise human rights
A new article in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry critically examines proposed reforms to Irish mental health law, finding that it falls...