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 […]
Annual MindFreedom Ireland Electroshock Protest 2025
Our annual electroshock protest takes place on Saturday, May 31st, O’Connell St., Dublin, outside the GPO at 12 noon onwards. Electroshock causes cellular brain damage. No medic should want to damage our brains. They should want to nourish our bodies, especially our brains. It’s only a small percentage of the medical profession that carry out […]
The Mind Fascinates Me
The mind fascinates me. It fascinates the wrong people though—psychiatrists. They measure it, diagnose it, press it between two sheets of DSM paper like a wildflower they never really saw. They ask questions like trapdoors, and listen like wardens with clipboards. But my mind is not an inmate. It’s a cathedral struck by lightning, still […]
As a woman of the 60s, while I became an Ursuline sister, I was also a rebel. I passed the sanity test and was professed.
Nuns were considered higher in rank because they were ready to give their lives for a noble cause! I was one of the chosen few. As I continued, I disliked being viewed in this way.. The habit was an outward sign and I liked to take it off whenever I was rarely given the opportunity. […]
The Truth About Psychiatry
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims many be the most oppressive.” C. S. Lewis https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit… When the symtoms of the two so called major ‘disorders’ “schizophrenia” and “bipolar” can be similar to the adverse effects of neuroleptics and there is no objective test to distinguish between them, how […]
Quantum Quacks
Though they warn us to stay out of the sunThe man in the white coatHas a new treat if you are glumElectromagnetic “ non -invasive “ the keyTo put you on road to Recovery More efficient than pills or ECTNo overnight stay needed you seeWe have the power the jargon the lawTo fix up your […]
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND ANNUAL REPORT 2024.
Sinn Fein is a well-known political party in Ireland. The two Gaelic words of the name can be translated as ‘We Ourselves’ or ‘Ourselves Alone’. Leaving all political affiliations aside, the words can also accurately describe the activities of MindFreedom Ireland, especially in relation to any dreams we may have of changing the face of […]