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Involuntary Committment
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 […]
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 […]