Kelly Kerry has sent us two stories. The first shows the effects of trauma on the psyche in an abstract way, PTSD and the second shows, through the sci-fi genre, how individual differences an be wrongly interpreted as mental illness. I Read More…
This is Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly’s first story. Its called Equilibrium. The fog had started with a simple migraine, a pulsating pain thrusting outwards from behind her eyes. Studying mathematical physics at one of the best universities in Ireland was Read More…
Dark Matter: A Brief Chapbook of Poetry by Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly About the Author Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly was born in Kent, England. She was diagnosed with severe ENT problems which included deafness. She had several operations and although she Read More…
“I need to do this as part of my recovery,” says Gráinne Quick-Humphrys about her return to music after a nearly twenty-year hiatus. In 1998 Gráinne collapsed from a nervous breakdown brought on by unresolved childhood issues. As a young Read More…
Listening To Voices Project in conjunction with Hearing Voices Ireland (HVI) Listening to Voices: Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network is a research project that tries to understand how we can listen to voices that we find difficult, disruptive or Read More…
My Journey and experience with Paranoid Schizophrenia (Psychosis) I was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia (Psychosis) in February 2012 and hospitalised for the first time at just aged 18 because I went through a traumatic event when I was in college Read More…
Reclaim the Vision of 1916 – a Citizens’ Initiative International Poetry Competition 2016 If you are a poet you may be interested in this competition… THEME: The Vision of 1916: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Inspired by the strong connections between poetry Read More…
How I Discovered Lasting Relief From The Voices That I Hear And Their Physical Attacks. I call myself justaguy, and I have suffered from hearing voices, and the severely painful physical attacks for over 10 years. My real name I Read More…
KERRY KELLY POETRY BOOK Kerry Kelly, now based in Ireland has asked us to share her excellent book of poetry inspired by her struggle with Bi-polar and OCD. Letter from the Author I decided to place this letter at the Read More…
JOHN K: Hearing Voices – My story Everyone has a story, my story is just that – my story – different in that it is unique to me, the same in that everyone has a story to tell. I’m 53 Read More…
On the first week of December 2006 I had my first bout of psychotic mania. I was super energetic and delusional, thinking to myself that I was a prophet of God, one of the two witnesses and I was to Read More…
To Unwell and Back In his late 20s, Greg Ralls became mentally ill and experienced first-episode psychosis. He reported a suspected homicide to police and was straightjacketed and made an involuntary patient in a locked ward of Graylands Psychiatric Hospital. Read More…
BRIAN HARTNETT – PERSONAL RECOVERY STORY — At a Schizophrenia Ireland (now Shine) conference in Dublin in 2004, Brian gave a presentation about his own recovery story to a large audience. Brian first started hearing voices in 1990. Since then Read More…
WILL HALL PERSONAL STORY Since I was a child I’ve struggled with extreme emotions, voices, and powerful out of body experiences. I remember falling to the ground once in third grade, writhing in agony because I believed something was grabbing Read More…
Transcript of the speech given by Hywel Davies at the “Recovery into Practice: A Whole Life – Whole Systems Approach”at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Carmarthen, Thursday 20th June 2013 My Recovery Journey Hywel Davies I am a voice Read More…
Written by Grainne for John Hunt:- Schizophrenia Wise as a serpent, my love Gentle as a dove You are a hand that gives A heart that holds Some pain, some beauty Some terror, some divinity Your life is to be Read More…
Owen Dureke is a poet from Tralee Co. Kerry, Ireland. He is published in the following four anthologies: Breacadh, (ed. Rosemary Canavan) Mermaid’s Purse (ed. Emma Cooke) Hearts of Kerry (ed. Noel King).and Doghouse Book of Ballad Poems (ed. Noel Read More…
The moving lyrics of an Irish song often sung by his departed mum, read by Greg White at the 2006 HVI launch The Fairy Tree In moonlight round the thorn tree The little people play And men and women passing Read More…
After the launch of HVI in 2006 Tony Bates of Headstrong wrote the article below for the Irish Times. Mind Moves November 14th 2006 – Listening to our voices. When Brian spoke openly about the challenge of living with “voices”, Read More…
Hearing Voices – putting things into context … and moving on (an article by Thomas Wiegandt as response to the Hearing Voices conference in Cork 10-11-06) Trapped (in our mind) The western world with its predominantly materialistic view of today¹s Read More…
The following is a list of feedback submitted to HVI after its launch in 2006. • Well done on yesterday, great day. Count me in on this, its a very important initiative, and one that seems to me to have Read More…
LIMERICK MENTAL HEALTH WEEK 2009 SPEECHES Thanks to Fiona, Tara, Cian & Ann Kennedy @ St. Nessans Community College Limerick. Fiona Beville’s Speech: Ladies and Gentlemen, People are complex human beings. There are many dimensions to our lives and these Read More…