This section of our site is a place to find people who share your experiences.

So many of us feel uprooted. So many of the people we meet who’ve been labeled with mental illness or who call themselves crazy are the ones who are always looking for more or don’t fit anywhere: the ones who feel rootless, displaced, unheard; the ones who wander and search and chafe; the ones who drop out of college and try to make music, or ride freight trains, or lay in bed watching clouds; the ones who hear messages no one else hears or see connections no one else can believe; the ones who are haunted by restlessness and desire, conviction and doubt; the ones who can’t overlook the emptiness of modern life or find niches for themselves within it…

There is nothing that gnaws like loneliness. Finding real community and contributing to it is a huge part of real, sustainable mental health. You are not alone

You may end up meeting Icarus Project members in your town or you might end up getting advice from compassionate people typing on computers halfway around the world. If you’re lucky, you’ll find both.

Discussion Forums

The heart of our online community. Click here for dozens of interactive forums on topics ranging from mania and depression to relationships, treatment, alternate dimensions and mutual aid.

Groups

Group pages hosted here at TIP. Find local contacts, create a group based on mutual interests, join a working group, etc.

Radical Mental Health Contacts

From the Bay Area to Minneapolis, in Canada and the UK, local radical mental health groups that share a vision and purpose are growing. Click here to get more info about finding or starting groups

Mad Gifts Week

Mad Gifts Week: A Celebration of Diversibility 2007 October 29th - November 4th For anyone and everyone who takes pride in being different, in a world where what's considered 'normal' is killing us! Celebrate Your Mad Gifts with a week of diversibility awareness, skills-share, discussion and activism! Show your mad pride to the world in the form of outreach workshops, language swaps, movie night, speak out or skills-share. Make the journey a personal rite of transformation by creating a mad map, writing a poem or a song about mad pride, draw your mad map persona, or make a madness first aid kit. Build community by discussing language, stigma, social and environmental factors influencing madness, trade alternative healing methods, or form local groups around areas of mad activism, such as the medication of youth.

Friends Make the Best Medicine: Icarus Support Manual Draft

Download and print out the first draft of our long-awaited Support Manual, titled Friends Make the Best Medicine: A Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks.

Icarus Chat Rooms

We now have 2 experimental chat rooms; check the links on the local radical mental health contacts listing on the right sidebar of the main site. We started with one room but people didn't like it, so we decided to encourage more and treat them as local autonomous initiatives.

Handouts on Group Facilitation

A collection of cool teachings on group facilitation borrowed mostly from the Rockwood Institute for a Freedom Center training, downloadable as a pdf.

Freedom Center Western MA

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6+ years and going strong, Freedom Center in Western MA is a support community with advocacy, education events, yoga, human rights activism, acupuncture, writing group and more... www.freedom-center. org

Icarus Project Minneapolis Information

This is a centralized place to find out more information about the Icarus Project Minneapolis.

Link to Icarus!

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Code to copy and paste for an Icarus button/badge/banner on your site or blog, as well as the Icarus news and photo feeds.
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