Campaign battles forced incarceration

THE use of force within the mental health services whereby people can be incarcerated and treated against their will must be stopped.

This is the hard-hitting message from a national ad campaign, Decriminalising Human Emotions, launched by campaigning support group Mad Pride Ireland.

Mad Pride, founded by John McCarthy, hopes to influence the review of the Mental Health Act through a submission to Junior Minister Kathleen Lynch, and is calling on people to visit its website to sign a petition calling for the end of force.