Icarus organizers Madigan Shive, Neil Gong, Sascha Scatter, Molly from Asheville, and Will Hall were invited to Virginia Tech to facilitate a dialog on mental health with students and other community members in the wake of the violent tragedy there... Includes photos and audio.
9 months of research, writing, editing, discussing, consulting, planning, designing, sweating, panicking, despairing, freaking out, emailing back and forth, mutual aid, dreaming, community solidarity, and crazy-outta-control mad love later, the much-awaited 40-page book about reducing and coming off psych meds hits the presses...
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.
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.