Jennifer Hough

Thanks to @SimonCumbersMF for funding this trip to Barbuda to highlight how the island is being exploited for private profit against the wishes of local people. Thanks also to @GLAN_LAW @JohnMussington and all of the people who assisted and spoke to me irishtimes.com/world/americas…

🚨 Researchers from @tcddublin @Cillmurry @CathalCadogan interviewed in this insightful podcast

Podcast: Examining psychiatric medication tapering and withdrawal madinireland.com/2026/04/podcas… via @Mad_In_Ireland

Shocking

Powerful campaign from @MHReform - this is what coercion in mental health feels like: madinireland.com/2026/03/it-hap…

“It happened in the hospital, In fact, the place she should be safe” madinireland.com/2026/03/it-hap… via @Mad_In_Ireland

Fact-Checking Trump’s State of the Union Speech (gift link) nytimes.com/live/2026/02/2…

I wrote something about this week's #CAMHS scandal for @Mad_In_Ireland: "The bigger questions we are avoiding" madinireland.com/2026/02/camhs-…

Ireland is complicit in this: "The Migrants Detained at the End of the World" - while we at the same time we are horrified at one of our in a similar US facility. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/02/10/mag…

Study: Global ADHD diagnosis driven by institutional and cultural forces madinireland.com/2026/02/study-… via @Mad_In_Ireland

Nauseating story - ICE flight refuelled in Shannon airport. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…

Excellent essay from @stimimi on how the mental health industrial complex manages the problems of declining and highly inequitable capitalist economies by obscuring the social and political basis of the issues criticalpsychiatry.co.uk/members-papers…

Gift link for #humanrights colleagues nytimes.com/2026/01/19/mag…

Important and incredibly compassionate message from the family of Maud Coffey:

Medication cannot be the “only part” of a mental health care plan madinireland.com/2026/01/medica… via @Mad_In_Ireland

Truth bombs: "We possess opinions, not objective truths, about the causes of distress. Psychiatric medications produce chemical changes; they do not correct known imbalances. Most suffering reflects adversity, not broken brains."

Excellent from @stimimi "In this technical sense, psychiatric diagnoses are not diagnoses at all. Yet they have spread globally and gained enormous authority."

For a podcast with real, honest facts and analysis on this topic, listen here - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the…

Disgraceful commentary from the minister for justice. Our numbers are not high, they make up about 0.5% of the population. Less than 1%...what is he talking about? It's commentary like his that is fuelling so-called social incohesion. Mind boggling.

"When I began working in psychiatry, the reality was very different from what I had imagined...People in distress weren’t truly being cared for. They were being diagnosed and medicated.... Their stories, their trauma and their lives were all reduced to checklists and labels."

You are completely detached from reality. Why would Danes choose to immigrate to the United States when they enjoy free access to publicly funded healthcare and when even unskilled workers earn a far higher hourly wage than in the U.S.?