Perspective

26/07/2026

Come on Mayo! Good luck to our Dara Beirne and all our Mayo lads. 💚❤️ We are so proud of you all and the journey you have taken us on.

You are being supported from around the globe and the heavens....💚❤️

Mayo for Sam! 💚❤️

18/07/2026

Rest in peace Brenda Fricker who struggled with her mental health as a response to her human life events. Childhood wasn't easy and later years a struggle to do things alone. Marriage bought 6 miscarriages. What voids, griefs and losses our Brenda experienced. Her story was never heard enough but her presence, voice, determination and laughter will live with us.
Rest in Peace Brenda. 💐💐💐

Brenda Fricker wins the Oscar for Supporting Actress for My Left Fo...

01/07/2026

There is indeed a massive rise in Mental health in teens and anxiety is a side of most mental health. At Perspective, my advice is, seek help as early as possible, do not presume a child or teen will grow out of it. Anxiety will start creating unhealthy coping strategies and patterns and will keep looping until the root cause and patterns are identified.

There are so many contributions to this rise in Mental health, social pressures, loneliness (although they are connected online, this is not real connection). I am still seeing the effects of covid, Social development, being dropped overnight by friends, Self image and esteem. Life isn't as simple for our teens now.

Perspective has an anxiety programme that works or avail of the many excellent services such as Jigsaw. Either way, getting help is the key.

More young people than ever before are seeking help from the youth mental health service Jigsaw, with referrals up 33% in the first three months of this year, compared to the same period last year.

18/06/2026

As psychiatry concedes long-standing criticisms of diagnosis, a deeper question emerges: What now justifies its authority over human suffering?

11/06/2026

We lost our little Rosie a few weeks ago. She had been unwell since Christmas but lived a mostly healthy seventeen and a half years. 🥰

I'm not sure she knew she was a dog, she danced, smiled, wanted a new toy every outing we had, had a big understanding of everything that was going on.

She was an entertainer, barked for attention and put on a show and loved making us laugh and smile. Toys and teddies were never shared as she put her paw around one every night. She would bring toys upstairs every night and then stand at the top of the stairs in the morning, throwing from her mouth what she needed, watching them bobble down the stairs. She loved being in the middle of everything and loved people.

We miss you so much Rosie, thank you for all the memories. 🫶🫶🫶

22/04/2026

Really like this article....exactly my sentiments.

The idea of the "autism spectrum" is widely used in diagnosis, education, and public discussion.

20/04/2026

Our Autsim Parent Peer Support group is meeting this Wednesday evening at 7pm. All are welcome 🙂🌈

25/03/2026

It's not just me at Perspective!

Through the years, I have taken on students who have qualified through Dublin City University with personal lived experience and doing great work at Perspective

Lived experience does matter as you aren't talking to someone who knows it in theory, you are meeting a person who has gone through it and has learned through the wisdom of pain, how to support others

If you need to get in touch with one of the qualified Peer Support Workers, do get in touch

The above person would be a great support to any teen or person in their early 20's with similar experiences

Elaine

085 7297451

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20/02/2026

As part of Ireland's National Strategy to reduce su***de called Connecting for Life, Breaking Through, the co-ordinaters of Su***de Intervention & Prevention training on behalf of the HSE, are offering a FREE training that is taking place on March 24th 2026. See details on poster.

Tuesday 24th March, 10am - 1:30pm
TF Royal Hotel & Theatre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, F23 R288

This training is for over 18’s only and not suitable for anyone bereaved by su***de within 12 months.

Scan the QR code or follow the link to book: https://bookwhen.com/srotraininggmr/e/ev-s7pl0-20260324100000

Mayo.ie Mayo County Council Mayo County Library HSE Ireland Pieta. Ending Su***de. Beginning Hope North West STOP-Su***de Prevention Mayo Mental Health Association What's on mayo Castlebar Community Forum Castlebar Chamber Le Cheile FRC Castlebar TF Royal Hotel & Theatre, Castlebar Healthy Mayo Sláintecare Healthy Communities North West Mayo Midwest Radio CRCfm

13/02/2026

Have you ever experienced that people can show up with lots of advice when you are going through something in life? Decisions to be made? Transitions? Changes?

Ever taken advice, or given advice that you regret?

Wrong advice can change a person's direction in life. It can take a person's power from them.

You should do this.....

If I were you......

You'd be crazy to.......

You should.....

You shouldn't......

Advice is a very slippery slope and many people have made the wrong decisions for themselves, listening to advice of others, that is ultimately not the answer for them.

As peers, we don't advise. Through relationship, people find the answers within themselves.

We understand that we haven't the right to choose what's best for another. We are trained to see that each person is entitled to their own journey, their own path of learning and growth.

They are entitled to time to resolve the issue within themselves. So to give advice? Pause.....be a person that helps a person find their own answers.

To take advice......well, the answers are in you.

Perspective teaches people to look within and find the answers within themselves. Perspective promotes deep connection with self and trust of that connection.

Obviously we have medical, financial, educational experts, that's not what I mean.

But in allowing someone to learn, grow and respond to life.....can you just facilitate in them finding their own answers?