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Joe Kelly is a writer and campaigner around mental health issues.

Joe Kelly reflects on mental health issues and the Hearing Voices Network

6 December 2009

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I have a confession. Apart from having a so called mental health problem, I have yet another affliction. That is I suffer from difficulties with writing. The problem is not genetic or environmental, not infectious or of some strange origin or ague. It’s merely this - I am so impassioned with my cause and so keen to say my piece, I seem to get overcome with a kind of word blockage and a compaction of thought that prevents me approaching the computer keyboard. Now in the late hours of the...

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