Jigsaw Lockdown 2020
Jigsaw Lockdown 2020 Reflections of a proud madwoman/MindFreedom When I was a young child I loved to do jigsaws. Living in the west of Ireland in a small rural village, I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to make some jigsaws with my family. Many years later after I got married and moved to […]
Coming Out Of The Darkness
In his poem The Forge, the Irish Nobel Prizewinner Seamus Heaney wrote: “All I know is a door into the dark” And it was into the dark, literally and metaphorically, that I was heading, on a stormy January night in 1976, as I was driven along winding country roads and through the gates of St. […]
Peace of Mind
Peace of Mind Today on 10/10/2020, 20 years free from poisonous, prescription synthetic chemicals, I am MadProud to know the truth about coercive, oppressive, fraudulent, toxic psychiatry! For more than 20 years I was a psychiatric prisoner because of all the propaganda which abounded around ‘mental health/mental illness, especially the idea that I had a […]
NO STOPPING IRELAND – CALIFORNIA SOLIDARITY
It was at a performance of Dylan Tighe’s Record – a dramatic/musical account of his own psychiatric experiences – at the Cork Midsummer Festival in 2012 that links were first established between MindFreedom Ireland and American Dr Karen McNulty, then lecturing in Occupational Therapy in the Cork School of Nursing, UCC. Karen’s innovative and creative […]
LOCKDOWN ELECTROSHOCK
A pseudo-scientific, outdated and brain-damaging procedure. Every May for the past 13 years, MindFreedom Ireland has held a public protest in Cork in opposition to the practice of electroshock, still carried out in psychiatric ‘hospitals’ in Ireland. We do so in solidarity with The Stop Shocking our Mothers and Grandmothers campaign organised by The Campaign […]
Psychiatric Tyranny
In honor of our friend who is attending a ‘mental health tribunal now! Leo, it has come to our attention that Derry Mescal, a fellow survivor of psychiatry, has spoken to you about a very important petition painstakingly organized by a fellow medic Dr Terry Lynch. The lines of communication with you in this age […]
THE ZYPREXA PAPERS
THE ZYPREXA PAPERS Since Jim Gottstein and I were both members of MindFreedom International and I had also joined Psychrights, I knew him even before I was delighted to meet him in person at an INTAR conference in Killarney, Ireland. I felt so much in common with him especially in the area of misinformation about […]
In Memory of Bonnie Burstow
Rest in Peace, Bonnie Burstowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkE9VepU0w&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1cOJn-pJrkx57ZXH720RyzuC4MNXqrBNpkyx5-ddgwBXXZEUqSjRGgiqw This is a Nocture by Chopin in F-sharp minor that I learned from scratch again last year as it was wiped out from my memory by electroshock when I first memorized it!Many electroshock victims/survivors have had their lives ruined because of the way psychosocial problems are misunderstood and perceived as […]
MindFreedom Ireland Annual Report, 2019.
We sometimes like to see MindFreedom Ireland (MFI) as a candle, shining and flickering in the darkness and always a symbol of light and hope. The past year has been a trying one for us having had to face and overcome many obstacles, including the passing of some of our staunchest members. But the flame […]
MindFreedom Ireland Annual Report, 2019.
We sometimes like to see MindFreedom Ireland (MFI) as a candle, shining and flickering in the darkness and always a symbol of light and hope. The past year has been a trying one for us having had to face and overcome many obstacles, including the passing of some of our staunchest members. But the flame […]