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Call for Intervention in Case of Boy Left in Windowless Irish Hospital Room for 56 Days

Mad in America

From RTÉ : “[Irish] Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to intervene in the case of a 14-year-old boy who has been left in a windowless room off a hospital emergency department in Co Kerry for the last 56 days. He has been existing for 56 days in a windowless room off the emergency department in a hospital in Kerry.

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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse. I lived a normal life without any medication until mid-2020 when I had another episode and was taken to another hospital where I was admitted but ran away the next day to another town because I believed what I needed was prayer.

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Press Statement: College President at NCHD Conference calls 2025 a ‘pivotal year’ for mental health services in Ireland

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Dr Lorcan Martin, a consultant in general adult psychiatry, was speaking ahead of his address to non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) in psychiatry at the College of Psychiatrists annual conference, Navigating Psychiatry in a Changing World: A Look at How We Can Embrace the Future, which takes place in Dublin today (Friday).