Minding Ireland: 'Straight away I felt comfortable and, most importantly, listened to'

Roisin Curtin makes some perhaps surprising observations about mental health services she has used — from Limerick University Hospital's acute psychiatric unit, to Jigsaw

In September 2021, 21-year-old Roisin Curtin admitted herself to the acute psychiatric unit in University Hospital Limerick, known locally as 5B.

It wasn’t her first experience with mental health services in Ireland. After a suicide attempt at 15, she was referred to a HSE counsellor via CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services).