Author Details

Role in OXIA: member

Author Website: https://realspeak.org/

About the Author

I am a recently retired emergency physician, but I have lived experience of many years labelled with ‘treatment resistant depression’ when I was subjected to the worst excesses of psychiatry, often detained against my will, prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs and I survived over 100 electroshock treatments (ECT), and also psychosurgery.

My memoir ‘Unshackled Mind; a doctor’s story of trauma, liberation & healing’ reflects my change of perspectives from believing that psychiatry helped to facing up to the real root causes of my distress. My passion is to inspire hope and enable choice for distressed people and their families