Conor Gavin said he was 16 when psychosis came on 'very out of the blue'. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
People who experience psychosis are “more likely to be victims of violence” than to be the source of it, according to the first co-ordinator of a pioneering psychosis research centre at the St John of God Foundation in Dublin.
Conor Gavin, from Galway, brings experience of the condition to the role, having lived through a “surreal and visceral” episode of psychosis in his teens.
He wants the voices of those who have lived with the condition to be at the heart of the centre’s work, and to dispel myths about psychosis, which affects about 1 per cent of the population.
“Around 45,000 people in Ireland are affected by
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