📢Very best of luck to our CVNI Ireland friends who are holding their 15th annual conference over the next few days 👏👏 KyrieFarm presenting as well Mad In Ireland talking about a year in the world!

Putting the pieces back together: Medical model did not help as it “pathologised and silenced me” madinireland.com/2024/04/puttin… via Mad In Ireland

A chance for harvest healing?

New poem on the site today - thanks to the author: Being a whole some, sum madinireland.com/2024/09/being-… via Mad In Ireland

This is a no brainer, chillax sanctuary.ie/2024/09/23/the…

Delighted to get this blog from the ‘not so clinical psychologists’ @CianAherne & @emmhickey Their new social media initiative is offering fresh perspectives on how to view mental health difficulties 👏madinireland.com/2024/10/the-no… via Mad In Ireland

We welcome this long awaited step of Ireland acceding to the optional protocol of the UN convent on the rights of persons with disabilities that was promised in the programme for Government. Another step on the road to equal rights gov.ie/en/press-relea…

"Psychiatric drugs are reported to be about 50% more effective in clinical trials funded by the drug’s manufacturer than when trials of the same drug are sponsored by other groups, new research shows". news.osu.edu/bias-found-whe…

ad4e The Power Threat Meaning Framework PCCS Books Lisa Morrison Dr John Read Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 Dr Joanna Moncrieff Viv Gordon Peter Kinderman @MarnieWedlake @Consultancy_HS Cormac Russell Anne Guy 💙 Descriptions not explanations

Great counter to 5 steps to wellbeing from new New Script PPR #WorldMentalHealthDay2024

🚨Breaking🚨 The Ditch informed Simon Harris TD in the past few minutes that another FedEx Memphis to Cologne flight – that will enter Irish sovereign airspace this afternoon – is carrying at least two munitions of war packages to Israel ⬇️

The Treatment-Prevalence Paradox: Why Depression Rates Keep Rising Despite More Treatments This new study argues for a shift from symptom suppression to supporting the deeper purpose of depression as an adaptive response. By Ally Riddle buff.ly/3BaSFJO

This is very very interesting - great to see coverage of this issue. Come on Irish media...🙏 "We asked readers about taking antidepressants. The response points to a ‘silent epidemic’ and urgent need for reform" theguardian.com/australia-news…

An Irish study in 2022 found that antidepressant use in Ireland is rising in line with global trends and that people were taking the drugs long term against best practice - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC85… Shauna Bowers

we are becoming victims of too much medicine and it is time to turn back the dial.. we are living in the age of diagnosis for mental and physical health.. there is no better illustration of this than the recent explosion of people diagnosed with ADHD theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

"When you have a service underpinned by legislation saying you can lock people up, you can’t have a human rights-based system." madinireland.com/2025/03/mad-in…

What if being miserable isn’t an illness? ‘£100 payment improved mental well-being by 13%.’ Why Labour should be tackling poverty, not cutting benefits. ⁦Mad In The UK⁩ madintheuk.com/2025/02/what-i…

Rethinking mental health in Ireland: Why not a Trieste-style approach? madinireland.com/2025/03/rethin… via Mad In Ireland

Just launched: Our new World Health Organization (WHO) Guidance on #MentalHealth Policy & Strategic Action Plans. Access the Guidance here: who.int/publications/i… Special thanks to MOFA & Mission of Portugal in Geneva for their support! #QualityRights Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ Professor Ahmed Hankir Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma by Lydia Green As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it. buff.ly/wxuXALy