mental health

The Icarus Project and Freedom Center’s 52-page illustrated guide gathers the best information we’ve come across and the most valuable lessons we’ve learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Based in more than 10 years work in the peer support movement, this Guide is used...

a really beautiful essay on the movement away from "mental health" as a restrictive framework and toward embracing desire, diversity, and difference.

hi folks, i'm dallas! i've been around here for a couple years, mostly reading old threads and taking advantage of the massive library of resources. but the last i heard it was shutting down, so imagine my surprise when i thought about it again a couple days ago and looked it up to see it still...

I was curious how traveling effects how you feel living in a capitalist society? I've been on disability for many years, for both mental illness and a very painful neurological condition. I became quite isolated and was too ill to travel for some time, but my symptoms improved enough I was able...

hey! :-) i have been in therapy on and off for the past years and it was pretty tough for me to stick to it/not to sabotage the treatment and i repeatedly dropped out of therapies and institutions). i do have a pretty good psychiatrist: i feel heard, he is well informed on my issues, he takes...

does anyone here have trouble establishing consistency anywhere even if they try? i can barely hang on to gear, stay in one place, like even stuff that really matters to me just seems to evaporate. i had this sick dagger with a birds head for the handle that i keep with me cause im alone in...

- Short Summary A letter correspondence over many years between Aileen and her best friend from childhood Dawn was collated into a book, in the order the letters were sent. Mixed into the letters were long essays about her life on the road which she asked Dawn to keep safe encase she ever...

Hey all, I've been trying to develop my career over the past few years so that I am able to have a work/travel balance. There is this work schedule in my field called 'career-seasonal' that you can work between 6-10 months a year and you essentially get laid off for months at a time, and have a...

Any other hoes out here with bpd who wanna share info/resources/etc so we can try to be Less Crazy™ together? Anyone have bpd but learned how to manage it without medication? Anyone "not have bpd anymore" ? Idk some people say u can be "cured" or "grow out of it" with time and therapy since...

Sorry if this has been posted before or isn't allowed, I'll probably end up wanting to delete this anyhow. I'm working on the road...driving and kinda babysitting groups of around 20 backpackers. I tend to work 3 and a half weeks at a time, then have three days off and start again. Like, it's...

Been coming to terms that I may need some help. Anyone have resources for free mental health clinics? The pain is starting to be more then I can handle.

I'm wondering if anybody else has PTSD from being in 23-hour lockdown (administrative segregation, not solitary confinement but close). I was just a number in the system, a bored, poor person that got drunk and spraypainted a building saying "fuck war 4 oil" and it happened to be a federal...

A little late, but better late than never... http://www.thesemicolonproject.com/the-semicolon-project.html THE SEMICOLON PROJECT A Semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence, but chose not to. The Author is you and the sentence is your life. On April 16th, join...

Is anyone else really concerned about their mental health? Lately I've been feeling like i'm starting to lose my mind and I don't know what to do about it. I know if I were to go to a doctor they would just prescribe some type of antidepressant and even if they helped, I don't see it as a way of...

Being alone = independence, but are you personally able to be happy while on the road by yourself for long periods of time? How do you deal with being alone? Don't forget stupid things like having a stuffed animal ;)

I recently remembered this super list of mental health related links. anything from rape to sex abuse, to depression to sleep disorders you can find it all here! WE R NOT ALONE - OTEP - THE LEGION I hope this helps! :)