Welcome to the website of author & composer, Patrick Ussher.

The book explains the breakthrough ME/CFS research of Prof Klaus Wirth and Prof Carmen Scheibenbogen. I'm honoured also to have the Foreword written by Prof Wirth about his work on developing the world's first potential medication for ME/CFS and Long Covid, 'Mitodicure'. The book also talks about my own health journey and the strategies that I have used to improve my quality of life. In addition to Amazon, it is available from a range of other suppliers. For more information, go to the book's website. It is currently being translated into French.

This is a hypothesis in which I challenge the condition known as 'psychogenic water drinking' (aka 'Primary Polydipsia'). This condition is currently regarded as involving the overconsumption of fluids as a result of mental illness. However, the cause is also acknowledged as unknown. In this book, I suggest that the typical clinical presentation of dilute urine, hyponatraemia and unquenchable thirst can mainly be explained with reference to the low blood volume, and the thirst this creates, in illnesses such as ME/CFS, POTS and Long Covid and that it is likely patients with these illnesses which have been historically misdiagnosed as having 'psychogenic polydipsia'. Available as a free download here.

I wrote this book in 2017 after I had recovered from POTS using the brain-retraining program, DNRS. In the book, I argued that the condition's cause stems from a misfiring in the limbic system in the brain and that this can be corrected through neuroplasticity. I believe that I did a reasonably good job of this and didn't - unlike many in the brain retraining space - claim that POTS is 'only' a 'hypersensitive nervous system'. However, my experience after falling ill again has led me to have a much more critical perspective on the potential usefulness of brain retraining. I still think this book contains an important area that is often overlooked (i.e. that there is a maladaptive neuroplastic state in POTS and related illnesses and that neuroplasticity can help) but it no longer fully represents my view. I published a list of corrections on the book's website and also set the price to the lowest possible.

A comparison of two philosophical ways of life, Stoicism, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, and Buddhism as practised in the West. Although there is no direct influence of the one on the other, I argue that both philosophies share many similarities and could also learn from each other. This book stems from research I did during my MA at the University of Exeter. This book has been featured on Shepherd and has been translated into Korean, Portuguese and Italian.

In 2012, I founded the Stoicism Today blog, which I then ran for four years. These two books are compilations of some of the best pieces from that time. The Stoicism Today project, now known as Modern Stoicism, is a collaboration between academics and psychotherapists working on developing Stoic resources for the modern-day. I was part of the team from 2012-2016. Every year, the project runs 'International Stoic Week' which is followed by thousands of people worldwide.

Volume I was also translated into French, Spanish, Portugeuse, Romanian, German and Italian.

This is a new edition of The Pink Ribbon Path, originally written by my late mother (Mary Redmond-Ussher). It is spiritual path for those facing serious illness, originally compiled by my mother during her six years with breast cancer. This new edition includes additional writings by those touched by my mother's original book as well as an introduction by myself on how I saw my mother live during her years of illness. I spoke about the book and my mum on the Irish radio station, RTE.