Recovery
Members of the public can engage informally with psychiatrists this Green Ribbon month through the CPsychI 3rd annual Twitter Q&A session on Wednesday evening, 31st May at 7pm. For 2 hours (between 7pm and 9pm) Consultant Psychiatrists Dr Miriam Kennedy and Dr Jennifer Hoblyn will take charge of the @GreenRibbonIRL Twitter account to engage with people about […]
The Shine Seminar “Recovery and the Family” conference will take place on Saturday 20th May 2017 beginning with registration at 10am at the Ashling Hotel, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8. This Seminar is free so registration is essential as space is limited. The College of Psychiatrists REFOCUS Committee will present at the conference. For more information […]
On International Women’s Day we celebrate trailblazer of the past Dr Ada English, and recognise the four women leading the HSE National Clinical Programme for Mental Health By Mary Hayes Dr Ada English was a pioneering Irish psychiatrist who was deeply involved in Irish politics and medicine during the first half of the 20th century. […]
Eating Disorders – Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa & Binge Eating Disorder What are they? What are the signs? How are they treated? This week marks Eating Disorder Awareness Week so we have compiled information from the CPsychI Eating Disorder Special Interest Group and BodyWhys to answer these questions and provide helpful resources. If you or someone […]
This article was written by Joanne McNally and was originally published in the Irish Times on 01/09/16. ‘When my therapist asks me to give my eating disorder an identity, it begins to take shape in front of me – and it looks exactly like Louis Walsh Okay now Joanne, we’re going to do a little […]
This week is Eating Disorder Awareness Week. In this video from the three-part Speak your Mind series from The Guardian, we meet Georgia, 22, who suffered from eating disorders through her teenage years. Thinspiration Tumblrs inspired her to lose weight but that spiralled to starvation and bulimia. Now recovered, she wonders why black women are […]
People who are on medication for any kind of mental health problem, don’t take meds because they want to, they take them because they have to, writes Nicola Hynds. This article appeared on thejournal.ie on 19th February, 2017 and was written by Nicola Hynds. ‘When I tell people that I have schizophrenia the usual reaction […]
We spoke to CPsychI REFOCUS member (Recovery Experience Forum of Carers and Users of Services) and See Change Ambassador Rick Rossiter following a First Fortnight screening of Infinitely Polar Bear. By Mary Hayes The movie stars Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana and follows Cam (Ruffalo) who lives with manic depression and bipolar disorder as he takes full […]
We spoke to CPsychI REFOCUS member (Recovery Experience Forum of Carers and Users of Services) and See Change Ambassador Rick Rossiter following a First Fortnight screening of Infinitely Polar Bear. The movie stars Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana and follows Cam (Ruffalo) who lives with bipolar disorder as he takes full responsibility of his two young, spirited daughters, while […]
Dr Therese O’Carroll and Mr. George Bridges of REFOCUS (Recovery Experience Forum of Carers and Users of Services) speak with Mr. A.T. about the consequences of stigma in the work-place for people with a history of mental illness.This was published as part of Think Tank, a quarterly e-newsletter for trainees by the CPsychI Training Committee 2016. […]