Let’s not ‘medicalise and disorderise’ young people, let’s listen to them
A note from Mad in Ireland: There has been a lot in the media recently about youth mental health and how young people are...
‘Discriminatory’ new law set to exclude people who experience extreme mental distress
THE Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Amend Bill 2022 is making important amendments to our new capacity legislation (the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015), which is...
Upcoming event will examine critical perspectives on the lived experience of distress
On 16 and 17 November 2022, after two years of having offered the annual CVNI conference online, we look forward to welcoming around 400...
Their brains are not broken
I once ran a therapeutic school in London for kids with complex trauma. Sam was one of our most brilliant and most challenging students....
Side effects of bombshell study debunking ‘chemical imbalance’ myth
Reaction to the Moncrieff et al study which reviewed decades of research and found that depression is not caused by a serotonin deficiency or a ‘chemical imbalance’ has been reverberating...