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Thanks to Tim Hurley, who over the years has been our constant support MindFreedom Ireland is back in action. Hopefully, this year 2026 will be a good year for us as we continue to expose deceptive, oppressive, fraudulent psychiatry and support each other and everyone who wants to know the TRUTH! Mary Maddock
On the theme of ‘sinn fein’ and being on our own, as expounded in our 2024 Annual Report, MindFreedom Ireland’s activism continued in the same vein throughout 2025.
Our second guiding principle is Mutual Support, and both of these themes were on full display at our annual Electroshock Protest in Dublin on Saturday, May 29th. With the necessary preparatory work being conducted by the WhatsApp Protest Group, mutual support came from many parts of Ireland and abroad, specifically from Amy, Jeroen, Derek, Michelle, […]
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Involuntary Commitment
On Involuntary ‘Treatment’ in the so-called ‘mental health’ system in Ireland. Since there are no biomarkers to establish that human life problems are mental disorders, no individual, be they adults or children, should be involuntarily committed to a mental institution, drugged or electroshocked. Forced ‘treatment’ is violent ‘treatment! It should have no place in humane […]
Coming Off Prescription Drugs
Looking back today, 25 years later, with 20/20 vision, I know one of the most important reasons that I was successful is that before 2000, my life was a living, torturous death for almost the same amount of time! I did not know how to make informed decisions, and often I was forced to take […]
New Book
Psychiatry and the joy of living together by Jeroen Holtkamp
In Fond Memory Of Paula Caplan
‘ECT’ Protest Poem
Organised at 12 A table plonked at the GPO The general post office 1916 not lost on us I think The last day of May And the survivors gathered With stories to tell 2025 Ireland People pass by Nothing shocking just a Saturday in May We gathered to let them know of the shocking Armed […]
More about 2025 Dublin Electroshock Protest
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND ELECTROSHOCK PROTEST 2025. ‘Do they still do that?’ This is the common response of the public when told electroshock is still administered in Irish psychiatric hospitals. Electroshock involves administering up to 120 volts of electricity to a person’s brain, deliberately inducing a ‘grand mal’ seizure. The latest figures from The Mental Health Commission […]