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Ballydehob Set For Annual Mad Pride Family Fun Day
Mad Pride Family Fun Day is hosting its annual event in West Cork in the Ballydehob Town Park on Sunday May 27th from 1pm to 5pm. This event is the result of an invite to Mad Pride Ireland from the West Cork Mental Health Forum to host the fully free event in an effort to break down stigma in mental health. Ballydehob will be the first event on the Mad Pride Ireland calendar for 2012. The focus of Mad Pride Family Fun Days is to engage the community through fun and laughter and thereby break down stigma and increase awareness and understanding of the normality of madness. Visitors at this [...]
Politics Is Not Brave Enough To Make The Right Decisions For Those With Emotional Distress!
Yet again politics is not brave enough to make the right decisions for those with emotional distress! So where are we now? The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice Equality and Defence has reported after seeking public and special interest consultations, the questions that now must be asked is have they nailed the ‘Capacity’ issue in relation to those with mental health problems or have they yet again missed an opportunity? In order to start we need to know why capacity legislation is being discussed. Ireland needs to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD), and if we are to do so we need to introduce [...]
Video Of Flash Mob To Highlight Negative Aspects Of Assigning Labels To Human Behaviour
Check out the video of our recent flash mob in Cork to highlight the negative aspects of assigning labels to human behaviour.
Mad Pride Launches New Information Campaign Around Labelling Mental Illness
Mad Pride Ireland has launched a new radio campaign to highlight the negative aspects of assigning labels to human behavior. This campaign is a tongue in cheek look at the current situation. The focus of the campaign is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4 (DSM 4) the dictionary for labels attributed to emotional problems. Mad Pride Ireland continues to argue against the treatment of ‘The Label’ and for the treatment of ‘The person’. As part of this campaign Mad Pride Ireland hosted a ‘Flash Mob’ at Cork’s English Market on Saturday 14 April at 2pm where members of the public showed off many of these labels to the world. Mad [...]
Treat The Person Not The Label
2012 is a very important year, Kathleen Lynch TD, our straight talking and good hearted Junior Minister is reviewing the Mental Health Act 2001. Alan Shatter TD, our Justice Minister, is looking to introduce ‘Capacity’ legislation. Both of these pieces of work will have a significant and long standing effect on Irish mental health and for those unfortunate enough to have to use the system. If we do not get these two pieces of work right we may not have the chance to change them again for a decade. The proposed Capacity Legislation will have wide ranging effects on the lives of those living with the normality of madness. Emotional [...]
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