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The language we have for describing mental health challenges and suffering can constrict or expand the realm of possibilities for how we define ourselves. Sascha Altman DuBrul has spent his life challenging mainstream assumptions about mental health, what's normal and abnormal, and built a community around shifting the narrative. Drawing from his personal experiences of getting locked up in a psych ward, he co-founded a radical mental health support group and media project (The Icarus Project) which proliferated the language of mental health concerns as ‘Dangerous Gifts,' to be harnessed and worked with rather than obliterated and erased. Today we talk about lessons learned, the challenges and necessity of community organizing, developing ethical values as a provider outside the system, and visions for the future of mental health. In this episode: 02:30 Sascha's Story & The Icarus Project07:53 From Punk Rock Subcultures to Radical Mental Health 11:11 Challenges and Transitions in Mental Health Organizing 17:14 Dangerous Gifts and other language 26:46 Using Internal Family Systems to Process Shame42:35 Self-reflection in Community Organizing 51:30 A Vision for the Future Bio Sascha DuBrul is a writer and educator that has been facilitating workshops and community dialogues at universities, conferences, community centers and activist gatherings for more than two decades. From the anarchist squatter community in New York City to the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, to the Earth First! road blockades of the Pacific Northwest, Sascha is a pioneer in urban farming and creative mental health advocacy. He is the co-founder of the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library, the first urban seed library in North America, and The Icarus Project, a radical community support network and media project that's actively redefining the language and culture of mental health and illness. He is currently working in private practice and raising two children in Oakland, California. Sascha's Website & Private Practice: https://www.saschadubrul.com/ Underground Transmissions Substack : https://undergroundtransmissions.substack.com/ The Icarus Project Archive and Resources: https://site.icarusprojectarchive.org/about-us Icarus Project Archive Survey 2024https://forms.gle/3EvDGq7NoyHa2Rzr9 Get bonus episodes now on substack! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://depthwork.substack.com/⁠ Sessions & Information about the host: ⁠⁠JazmineRussell.com⁠⁠ Disclaimer: The DEPTH Work Podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Any information on this podcast in no way to be construed or substituted as psychological counseling, psychotherapy, mental health counseling, or any other type of therapy or medical advice.

"When someone says that they want to end their life, it just means that they don't want to be living the life that they're living" (Icarus Project). It's overwhelmingly common for people to experience a suicidal ideation at some point in their life. As a society, we have to find better ways of preventing or approaching these experiences. Currently, our traditional psychiatric approaches seem to often do more harm than good for folks in vulnerable states. In this episode, I review some of the concerning research around SI interventions, and what we can do better. In this episode we discuss: myths about folks who experience SI why structured clinical assessments aren't predictive of SA what traditional mental health systems get wrong about approaching SI why there are higher rates of SA after psychiatric hospitalization research on efficacy of emergency services alternative options when someone's experiencing SI Resources Institute for the Development of Human Arts : www.idha-nyc.org peer run respite centers: https://power2u.org/directory-of-peer-respites/ Alt 2 Su (australia): https://alt2su-nsw.net/support-groups/ Alt 2 Su charter https://wildfloweralliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CHARTER_alt2su_August-edits.pdf Research: safety contracts https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18638213/ assessments and lack of predictive power https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-022-10189-5 post-hospitalization suicide risk https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2629522 higher risk post emergency services https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-014-0912-2 coercion survey https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31162700/ harm disguised as help https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/09/suicide-police-harm-disguised-as-help/ hospitalization both increased and decreased risk https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37851457/ Sessions & Information about the host: ⁠⁠JazmineRussell.com⁠⁠ Disclaimer: The DEPTH Work Podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Any information on this podcast in no way to be construed or substituted as psychological counseling, psychotherapy, mental health counseling, or any other type of therapy or medical advice.

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It takes radical imagination to envision a future of mental health that is rooted in community support and multiple ways of approaching healing. Noah Gokul is an artist and mental health educator who embodies this concept in all their work. Grounded and affirmed by legacies of activism before us, we discuss what it was like to be peer specialist working in a clinical mental health setting. Noah shares how having a father who was a culturally affirming family therapist impacted their work, and how they use art to explore frameworks for navigating depression and anxiety. Also in this episode: The co-optation of the peer specialist role and how hierarchy can prevent progress the importance of knowing the history of mental health activism depression as a manifestation of not getting our needs met navigating anxiety through art Noah (they/them) is a Queer multidisciplinary artist and educator here to create liberated worlds through art, storytelling, and sound. They grew up in Oakland, CA/unceded Ohlone land, and identify as a trauma survivor with sensitivities to the world around them. They use music and art for meaning-making and the healing of others, integrating these passions into their work as a peer for young adults in a first-episode psychosis program. They have facilitated in a wide variety of settings, at the intersections of anti-oppression, trauma, incarceration, Caribbean ancestry, music, and mental health. Through their incantations they create spaces of radical imagination and possibility. IDHA-NYC.org Events: Crossroads of Crisis 2022-2023 Trainings - https://www.idha-nyc.org/crossroads-of-crisis Links: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bindiram/ Bandcamp - https://bindiram.bandcamp.com/music ReKin Art Collective Berlin - https://moritzjekat.de/re-kin Inside the spiral created by Noah Gokul - https://vimeo.com/749357163 On Track NY - https://ontrackny.org/ The Icarus Project - https://www.academia.edu/11397502/The_Icarus_Project_A_Counter_Narrative_for_Psychic_Diversity The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity by Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish The Family Centre NZ- https://familycentre.org.nz/

***WARNING/MEDICAL DISCLAIMER***  This audio content is for conversational purposes only and does NOT constitute medical, mental health, or any other kind of personal or professional services or advice.  Consult with your doctor or health care professional before making any changes to your prescription medication. “NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH: “FDA Updates Black Box Warning for Benzodiazepines” https://www.center4research.org/fda-updates-black-box-warning-for-benzodiazepines/   . The agency warns patients to talk with their healthcare providers in order to develop a plan for safely and slowly tapering off a benzodiazepine.1 . . . Benzodiazepines already have a black box warning, which warns that taking benzodiazepines at the same time as opioids can lead to extreme sedation, slow and ineffective breathing, comas, and even death.6 FDA's 2020 decision keeps this previous warning about combining benzodiazepines with opioids and adds additional warnings about the risks of addiction, as well as dangerous withdrawal symptoms. “https://www.center4research.org/fda-updates-black-box-warning-for-benzodiazepines/   While experiencing the transition from high school to college, John Staight was prescribed alprazolam (i.e. Xanax), a powerful benzodiazepine (benzo). As a responsible patient, John acted in good faith, and took his medication as prescribed.  He trusted the “all-knowing doctors” and mental health professionals with his life. Decades later, at a cliffs edge, his trust in the mental health system would be permanently broken.  Listen in, as John shares how he navigated the heroes' journey and now lives to educate and help others escape the clutches of antidepressants and benzodiazepines. “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth” Plato Colorado Consortium Benzodiazepine Action Work Group https://corxconsortium.org/work-groups/benzodiazepine/ The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices https://benzoreform.org/ The Benzodiazepine Information Coalition https://www.benzoinfo.com/ Benzo Free website and podcast (D Foster) https://www.benzofree.org/ “Benzo Free:  The World of Anti-Anxiety Drugs and the Reality of Withdrawal” (D Foster) https://www.amazon.com/Benzo-Free-Anti-Anxiety-Reality-Withdrawal/dp/173227861X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16KI20S4PGKLX&keywords=benzo+free+book&qid=1664916369&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjIyIiwicXNhIjoiMC41MCIsInFzcCI6IjAuNzIifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=benzo+free%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1 “Medicating Normal” documentary website https://medicatingnormal.com/ Watch “Medicating Normal” on Amazon Prime https://www.amazon.com/Medicating-Normal-Robert-Whitaker/dp/B09KDF2VQ8 “Medicating Normal” YouTube Channel – Interviews with patients and medical experts https://www.youtube.com/c/MedicatingNormal “As Prescribed” documentary website https://www.asprescribedfilm.com/ The Ashton Manual https://benzo.org.uk/manual/  BenzoBuddies support forum http://benzobuddies.org/ BenzoBrains YouTube channel (Jocelyn Pederson) https://www.youtube.com/c/BenzoBrains SurvivingAntidepressants.org support forum https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/ “What I Have Learnt From Helping Thousands of People Taper Off Antidepressants and Other Psychotropic Medications”  (Adele Framer, Founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org, in Sage Journals) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2045125321991274 “Death Grip:  A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness”  by Matt Samet https://www.amazon.com/Death-Grip-Climbers-Escape-Madness/dp/125004328X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3UINZ48R09R5T&keywords=Death+grip+benzo&qid=1664917147&sprefix=death+grip+benzo%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-1 “Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life”  (Dr. Allen Frances) https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalization/dp/0062229265/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1A7RR0FSZXJ0U&keywords=saving+normal&qid=1664917255&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjcxIiwicXNhIjoiMS4zNiIsInFzcCI6IjEuNjAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=saving+normal%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1 “Yes, Benzos are Bad for You”  (article by Dr. Allen Frances in Psychology Today) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/saving-normal/201607/yes-benzos-are-bad-you “Anatomy of an Epidemic:  Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America” (Robert Whitaker) https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing/dp/0307452425/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25OPKBEADLMP8&keywords=anatomy+of+an+epidemic&qid=1664917567&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjYwIiwicXNhIjoiMS4xMCIsInFzcCI6IjEuNDIifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=antaomy+of+an+%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1 The Inner Compass Initiative https://www.theinnercompass.org/ The Withdrawal Project https://withdrawal.theinnercompass.org/ “A Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs” (Will Hall, The Icarus Project and Freedom Center” http://nycicarus.org/articles/reduction-psychiatric-drugs/  “The Serotonin Theory of Depression:  A Systematic Umbrella Review of the Evidence”  (Dr. Joanna Moncrieff et. al, Nature) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 Dr. Joanna Moncrieff's website https://joannamoncrieff.com/ Dr. Roger McFillin on twitter: https://twitter.com/DrMcFillin The Radically Genuine Podcast by Dr. Roger McFillin https://radgenpod.com/ “The Better Brain:  Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition”  (Dr. Julia Rucklidge and Dr. Bonnie Kaplan) https://www.amazon.com/Better-Brain-Overcome-Depression-Nutrition/dp/0358697131/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HSY6D8ZSWHER&keywords=the+better+brain+by+bonnie+j.+kaplan+and+julia+j.+rucklidge&qid=1664987325&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjk5IiwicXNhIjoiMC45OCIsInFzcCI6IjAuNjUifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=julia+ruck%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1 Newsweek articles on antidepressant withdrawal, antidepressant effectiveness, and lack of evidence for “chemical imbalance” theory of depression https://www.newsweek.com/2022/09/30/antidepressants-work-better-sugar-pills-only-15-percent-time-1744656.html https://www.newsweek.com/how-kick-antidepressant-drugs-without-triggering-relapse-new-research-1745509 New York Post Article “Why we should stop casually prescribing antidepressants to teens” (Brooke Siem, chef and author of “May Cause Side Effects”) https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/why-we-should-stop-casually-prescribing-antidepressants-to-teens/ Media interviews with psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff regarding her recent serotonin research publication and antidepressant effects https://youtu.be/d65J2Kqv4xQ https://youtu.be/6eF6f3tQ6aw https://youtu.be/Lx7hfk3cpg4 Mad in America Podcast and website – source for a critical look at the evidence for current mental health practices and psychiatric medications https://www.madinamerica.com/mia-radio/ Interview with author Matt Samet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN0TY9CRBcM&t=1s   National Suicide Prevention Lifeline . . . 988 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/    

Dr. Bruce Levine is a clinical psychologist how writes about the intersection of society, culture and politics with psychology. He has earned a name for himself as an insightful critic of psychiatry and our health system's reliance upon psychiatric drugs to treat mental disorders. Dr. Levine sits on several advisory boards including the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, the National Center for Youth Law and the Icarus Project, which is dedicated to safely weening people off dependence upon psychiatric drugs. His articles frequently appear online in Counterpunch, Truthout, Salon, Mad in America, and Oped News, and he has been interviewed and published by the New York Times, the Ecologist and numerous other magazines. Bruce has authored about five books. His latest, which was just release is: "A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry, Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking and Radical Enlightenment' -- which takes a hard look at modern psychiatry's systemic failures and proposes that the philosophy of the 17th century thinker Baruch Spinoza may offer explanations to understand psychiatry's intrinsic flaws. Dr Levine's website is BruceLevine.net

This week's guest drew from his own personal experiences to develop a new way of looking at mental wellbeing and the healing process. In this in-depth and insightful conversation, Sascha leads us through his childhood discovery of punk rock and his first experiences with the mental health system to the creation of the Icarus Project and his current work as a social worker and mental health coach and trainer. We also dive into the role that punk rock played in it all, and the lifeline it provided him. All in all, this episode is a masterclass from a true trailblazer. For Full Length Episodes And Merchandise Go To https://www.patreon.com/killedbydesk Follow: Killed By Desk Insta: @killedbydeskpodcast Twitter: @killedbydesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/killedbydesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/killedbydesk Links: Sascha Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sascha_Altman_DuBrul https://www.mapstotheotherside.net/ https://www.discogs.com/artist/966825-Sascha-Dubrul Maps to the Other Side https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/3648/ Navigating brilliance and madness: Sascha Altman DuBrul at TEDxHunterCCS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Tep6m9wRI Anarchist Switchboard https://signs-of-life-nyc.blogspot.com/2013/02/flier-from-anarchist-switchboard-1988.html C Squat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8qvcjaGsbE Institutionalized https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ Icarus Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_Project Slug & Lettuce http://slugandlettuce.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_and_Lettuce_(fanzine) AC Thompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8g3UWNmdms Food Not Bombs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbiypS9Ot4 Fireweed Collective https://fireweedcollective.org/ Hearing Voices Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBq2FfgHMgQ Lipstick Traces https://www.amazon.com/Lipstick-Traces-History-Twentieth-Anniversary/dp/0674034805 Steven Banks https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/magazine/steven-banks-homelessness.html Pete Earley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dom_pBkgCL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQpdqBF1fTs Issa Ibrahim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOMMHm9SKPM No Commercial Value https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2wlQsksPM San Loco https://www.sanloco.com/menu IFS Therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdzH2YRmv6Y

Can survivors be therapists – and even be better at it? Jacks McNamara – poet, trauma healing coach, and co-founder of The Icarus Project – joins Will Hall - advocate, counselor and founder of Madness Radio - to discuss the calling to become a therapist/counselor/coach inspired by their own struggles and survivor mutual aid. Topics discussed include -What makes a “good therapist”?  -Is mutual aid and friendship enough or do we need professional healers?  -How does sharing your trauma and oppression with clients affect working as a therapist?  -What about licensing and credentials – can they get in the way of truly helping people?  -And is a therapist at heart a wounded healer? Find Will Hall and Madness Radio online: On the web: https://willhall.net/ Madness Radio on the web: https://www.madnessradio.net/ Will on twitter: @willhall  Free book download: Outside Mental Health, http://www.outsidementalhealth.com/ Find Jacks McNamara online: On the web: https://jacksmcnamara.net On Instagram: @jacksmcnamara  Jacks' book of poetry, Inbetweenland: https://jacksmcnamara.net/inbetweenland-book/ The Big Queer Poetry Class Details and registration at https://jacksmcnamara.net/spring-2022-big-queer-poetry-class. Use the discount code SoManyWings to get 10% off if you register before February 8th. Links to So Many Wings' social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org To donate: https://www.somanywings.org/donate/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

  Matthieu & Loury avaient un point commun lorsqu'ils se sont rencontrés : une passion pour l'aventure. Ensemble, ils revisitent le défi des 7 sommets qui consiste à gravir la montagne la plus haute de chaque continent. Revisiter, car ils ont décidé de rallier chaque sommet par un passage difficile voire extrême, et sans aucun moyen motorisé. Une aventure aux allures de tour du monde, à travers des environnements extrêmes & parfois hostiles, dont ils ont déjà vécu le premier chapitre avec l'ascension de l'Aconcagua en Amérique du Sud, arrêtée brusquement à cause du Covid.  

Can survivors be therapists – and even better at it? Jacks McNamara – poet, trauma healing coach, and co-founder of The Icarus Project – joins Will Hall to discuss the calling to became a therapist/counselor/coach inspired by their own struggles and survivor mutual aid. What makes a “good therapist”? Is mutual aid and friendship enough […]

Today - I've recorded my unscholarly translation of Prudentius's Psychomachia for you. Originally written in Latin in the fifth century, I was thrown out of Latin for making up stories about Orphelia in the Underworld, so it's hardly scholarly. But Praise Be to the miracle of Google Translate, a dictionary, and other translations, the tools I've used for translations of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine. The result is likely as wild as the cartoons of the illuminated manuscript (c.1016) which attracted me to steal this “War of The Soul”, or “Battle of Vice and Virtue” as the title for my novel, I needed something better than the various working titles since I began drafting back in 2005: Medicine, Old Street Eagles, De-railed, The Dublin Notes, The Icarus Project, So Fist, and Papershoes. Psychomachia felt like a heavenly intervention and the perfect allegory for a girl who wakes up all Jean Genet, in the 90s, unsure if she's murdered the arch patriarch of rock n roll.

This week on Dopey! In a super different type of show we are joined by Dave's childhood friend Sascha Altman DuBrul. Dave and Sacha talk about growing up in Manhattan, and the major sign posts on Sascha's incredible journey through the anarchist punk rock wonderland of the Lower East Side, where he got deep into the scene, playing bass and writing songs for the renowned NYC ska punk band, Choking Victim. Sascha then hopped freight trains across the country and ultimately had a psychotic break getting diagnosed with bipolar disorder.  He became an American activist, and co-founded The Icarus Project, an international community support network and media project, redefining the language and culture of mental health and illness.  Plus Dopey legend of law enforcement, Butchie a.k.a T.J comes over to Dave's house on Long Island to hang out on the show! We also hear a classic Dopey voicemail and much much more on this new style, old school episode of Dopey!

This week, Jo and J.J. welcome Sascha Altman DuBrul, Writer, Educator, Coach, Counselor, and Co-Founder of the Icarus Project. Sascha shares how his own experience with mental health and time in a psychiatric hospital led him to realize that the traditional mental health space had a lot of frailties and faults, and brought him to his life's mission to bring like minded people together to start to get the education and training they would need to create lasting change. He talks about his decision to also add in traditional clinical education and why that was beneficial and explains the need for communities to come together to empower each other. He and Jo and J.J. also discuss how social and political context must be talked about to understand mental health.   Takeaway: [2:38] Sascha is a writer and educator and has facilitated workshops for more than two decades. He is part of a growing movement to provide an alternative mental health infrastructure. [3:34] To him, mental health is the basis of how we relate to ourselves and others out in the world. Sascha's mission is to help us see our emotional sensitivities as a superpower and less as a burden. He knows firsthand that we can thrive rather than just survive. [6:02] When Sascha was 18 years old, he had a psychotic break, was locked up in a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He was just in his late 20's and harbored all these questions about his treatment and the system itself. [8:19] Sascha knew there was more than just what his doctors were telling him and the information he was getting from the mainstream medical world. This led him to explore why culture and society are so influenced by politics and funding, and how the society we live in is crazy, making people feel insane for questioning the status quo. [11:40] One of the foundational tenets of Sascha's work is the power of validation and knowing you aren't alone. Many of the anti-stigma campaigns are funded by the pharmaceutical industry, but we need real people stepping up as peers to get real about their challenges to help others feel safe in being vulnerable. [15:33] Having a sense of identity is so important. When we don't know who we are, we can fall prey more easily to the dominant ideology of society without really thinking for ourselves. [21:08] Sascha discusses the multiple training modalities he has done including Internal Family Systems, and how it complements his education both from Hunter College School of Social Work and Silverman School of Social Work. Working in the public mental health system in New York City he saw that there was so little talk about actual mental health, and people shied away from talking about their own lived experience. He also saw that helpers get paid very little and working in the system is extremely stressful, thankless, and challenging. [26:13] The Peer Movement is a radical way to transform the system and train people that part of their job is self-disclosure. [28:42] Sascha talks with J.J. and Jo about having connections inside the system but maintaining ourselves outside the system through training and education. You can get a clinical degree,  but it's important that the people that have had the lived experience are getting heard. Otherwise, there are blind spots in professional treatment that go unaddressed. [35:18] The current mental health system is too old and needs to be rebuilt. Sascha discusses the global mental health movement and how both from top-down and from the bottom up, there are glaring issues that include Western ways of thinking petrochemical companies and Big Pharma are our only saviors. [42:55] What really increases mental health? Money and resources, not just doing one type of therapy. We need to redistribute resources to people in the world, so people are able to take care of themselves first on a basic human needs level. [48:42] It takes a lot of energy to want to hurt or harm oneself, and these are very energetic symptoms. Once redirected in a healthy way, it can possibly be a transition to putting more energy into positive habits and creativity.   Connect With Us: Joanna Denton | Dr. J.J. Kelly   Sascha  IDHA | Sascha DuBrul | TEDx

Jason Wright is the founder of The Oddball Foundation, a 501(c)3 established in 2020 from members of oddball magazine established in 1995 to advocate for mental health, social justice, and environmental sustainability.  He is the host of the oddball show podcast available on all podcast platforms, author of three books, his upcoming Train of Thought 2: Almost Home, the sequel to the collection of his second collection of poetry, Poems from the Red Line, will soon be available from oddball magazine publishing. You can see his Jagged Thoughts column every week at www.oddballmagazine.com. “Books, not bombs. Write, not fight.” - Jason Wright. Join me today as Jason and I chat about his foundation, his struggles, his achievements and What does he struggle with (9:24)What helped him learn how to live (18:41)Is this resonating with you? What to look for (20:32)Are there any particular triggers that they would look for (25:51Started the OddBall Magazine at age 15 (28:37)Covid and people around us (37:14)Possible collaboration (38:47)This was such an educational and inspiring episode with Jason of The Oddball Foundation. What a powerful message to advocate for mental health, social justice, and environmental sustainability. Be on the lookout for collaborations from The KAM Project and The Oddball Foundation!  Connect with JasonWebsite InstagramFacebook Email  MentionsMassasoit Community College  Safe Coalition PeersPerformix Student Club @ Massasoit Community CollegeThe Icarus Project The OddBall Show Podcast Episode 6.6 Les BrownWays to connect with us:Website Instagram @TheKAMProjectorg    @actionistalive    @whiskitwithflava YouTube - Whisk it with flAVA Special Thanks To:Rob Actis - For gifting The KAM Project BrandingDan Lipton - For composing KAMcastKIDS & KAMcast musicSara Mann - For KAMcastKIDS & KAMcast voiceovers Leah Bryant - Podcast Producer/Virtual Assistant Social Media Tags:@actionistalive@whiskitwithflava@thekamprojectorg@oddball_foundation@Oddball Magazine@massasoitgram@safecoalition@caterpillar_soup - Sascha of Icarus Project @fireweedcollectivehjClubhouse:@actionistalive@oddballmagazine Hashtags:#thekamproject#actionistalive#whiskitwithflava#poetry#oddballmagazine#oddballfoundation 

In this episode of the oddball show, Jason sits down with punk bassist and mental health advocacy leader, Sascha Altman DuBrul. Co-Founder of the Icarus Project, Sascha has helped pave the path on how we view mental health issues today. 

Join us for a conversation with Danni Biondini where we discuss her path from radical mental health activist at the Icarus Project to becoming the Chair of the Community Mental Health Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Topics we cover include: Coming of age as a radical activist in San Francisco Rebuilding after a breakdown by understanding systems of oppression Using intellectual defenses as a way to grow Foucault’s Panopticon - internalizing the dominant gaze of the social order History of the Bay Area Icarus Project chapter The power and limitations of peer support  The power and limitations of working as a clinical therapist Building a radical therapy practice and the importance of mentorship and supervision About Danni Biondini: Danni Biondini is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in San Francisco, and  Assistant Professor and Chair of the Community Mental Health program at CIIS. She is the Director and Supervisor of a psychodynamic therapy program at Francisco Middle School, overseeing the therapy services provided to kids at the school. As a longtime school-based therapist, she has a major interest in how to intervene on schools as sites of socialization. She came to the field with a background in radical mental health, as a member of the Bay Area Icarus Project in its heyday. She brings a radical mental health lens to her work, trying to build communities of therapists working within the system to change it.  Find Danni online: On the web: www.dannibiondini.com On Instagram: @biond_the_pleasure_principle Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

Join us for an intimate and far reaching conversation with scholar, educator, and media producer Erica Hua Fletcher where we discuss contemporary mental health social movements, community health and healing, identity politics, and the rise of Mad Studies.  Topics we cover include: The limits of terms like “madness” and “mental health” The many useful lessons learned from researching The Icarus Project and other forms of peer support The multiple and complex gifts and traps of embracing identity politics  The growth of the Mad Studies field in the academy and beyond Critical psychiatry and how public mental health care can be radically transformed About Erica: Erica is a scholar, educator, and media producer based in Los Angeles, California (Tongva land). She currently serves as a co-president of the Anthropology and Mental Health Interest Group, in association with the American Anthropological Association's Society for Medical Anthropology; and this fall, she is starting a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, where she will be doing research on issues related to veterans recovery and resilience. Erica writes about contemporary mental health social movements, community health and healing, and carework; her scholarship and course offerings span the health humanities, social medicine, mad studies, and social work. She has taught at four public universities, most recently at the University of California at Irvine.  Find Erica online: On the web: https://ericahua.weebly.com/ On Social Media: Instagram @erica.hua  Links to relevant resources: To download Erica’s articles: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erica_Fletcher3 For more on the return of class consciousness among the Left: See Adolph Reed Jr.’s article “The Myth of Class Reductionism:” https://newrepublic.com/article/154996/myth-class-reductionism Mikkel Krause Frantzen’s article “A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/future-no-future-depression-left-politics-mental-health/ Recent article and reflections on the Mad Studies movement: Peter Beresford (2020) ‘Mad’, Mad studies and advancing inclusive resistance, Disability & Society, 35:8, 1337-1342, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2019.1692168  To join Mad Studies Reading Groups (via Zoom), email Matthew Jackman at globalmadstudiescollective@gmail.com the (Australia-based) monthly reading group.   Visit https://www.pinkskythinking.com/mad-studies to register for upcoming reading group discussions (based in the UK). To connect with social researchers with lived experience, visit User/Survivor Research Network at https://usersurvivorresearch.weebly.com/ and sign up for the mailing list.  Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

It might sound like a science fiction plot, but the new strategy to track the world's wildlife is very much a real life program that has been more than two decades in the making.

Join us for a conversation with L.D. Green, in which we discuss their contributions in radical mental health movements, the anthology We’ve Been Too Patient, which they co-edited with Kelechi Ubozoh, and their practice as a writer.  Topics we discuss include: Labels and language in radical mental health movements.  Representation of queer and trans folks and people of color in the anthology  Time travel and madness in speculative fiction and science fiction About LD Green: LD Green is a non-binary writer, performer and educator. They have been published in Salon, The Body is Not an Apology, Mad in America, TruthOut, and elsewhere. They co-edited and contributed to We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health, Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model with Kelechi Ubozoh published by North Atlantic books and distributed by Penguin Random House in 2018. A former member of the Icarus Project and a former poetry slam champion, they are a Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction and write and enjoy science fiction and fantasy. They are assistant professor of English and creative writing at Los Medanos College in the Bay Area of California.  Find LD Green online: On the web:  https://www.ldgreen.org/ https://www.wevebeentoopatient.org/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lizdegreen On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leoninetales/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/ldgreen79 Links to relevant resources: Not Confused, Not Crazy: On Being A Non-Binary Radical Mental Health Advocate: https://medium.com/pulpmag/not-confused-not-crazy-on-being-a-non-binary-radical-mental-health-advocate-7a33ae536207 Essay by LD Green: “We’ve Been Too Patient: How to Create Mutual Aid Relationships in the 21st Century.”  https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/weve-been-to-patient-how-to-create-mutual-aid-relationships-in-the-21st-century-imogen-prism/ America's mental health system may be unfixable. Fortunately, there's an alternative: https://www.salon.com/2019/06/22/americas-mental-health-system-may-be-unfixable-fortunately-theres-an-alternative/ Mental Health Comedy Hour: https://downtownsantacruz.com/do/the-mental-health-comedy-hour Essay by Kelechi Ubozoh: “Re-imagining Self-Care for Black Folks.” https://kelechiubozoh.com/2020/06/04/reimagining-self-care/   Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

Join us for a conversation with emiko yoshikami where we discuss her contributions to The Icarus Project, her practice of Buddhism, and her work in surrogate partner therapy. Topics we discuss include: Critiques of “mental health” and biomedical understandings of “mental illness”  Experiences of deep empathy and burnout in meaningful work  Reliance on intuition and spiritual exploration in the fight for social justice  About emiko: emiko lovingly identifies as a queer, crazy, half-breed, ho. She is interested in how our lives are made meaningful through language and the stories we tell. Through Buddhist wisdom and political engagement, emiko is committed to co-creating a more just and compassionate world. She lives in a small flat in San Francisco with 3 other housemates. Find Emiko online: On the web: healingintimacy.org Links to relevant resources: Wilda White on how racism is maintained through the conflation of criminality and mental illness: https://www.vermontpsychiatricsurvivors.org/blog/crazy-lives-matter-too-imagining-a-world-where-everyone-is-valued-feb-19-2019 CNN documentary on surrogate partner therapy featuring emiko: https://vimeo.com/284819112?fbclid=IwAR0-65s_6VEzwE8lwi-RchqlDwkCmj0HfzY-sQ7cI6fiEdAIuh4zzJcBqN8 Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

Pour ce nouveau portrait de Oufff, on a eu l'immense plaisir de découvrir un homme hors norme. Un aventurier comme il n'en existe très peu. Loury Lag a eu 1000 vies, des expériences incroyables négatives comme positives. Il revient en détail sur son parcours, sur ce qui l'a amené a se lancer dans des aventures folles, seul, sans expérience... Une enfance difficile qui l'a forgé pour être ce qu'il est aujourd'hui.  Dans quelques semaines, il va se lancer avec Matthieu Belanger dans plusieurs chapitre d'un projet dingue : Icarus Project.  On vous laisse écouter et prendre votre bonne dose de motivation !  Vous pouvez le retrouver pour suivre ses aventures sur les réseaux sociaux :  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Loury-2074186272799811/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/loury_lag/ Vous pouvez aussi retrouver Oufff sur les réseaux sociaux : Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/oufff.appli Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/oufff_podcast/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/Oufff_app Vous pouvez aussi nous aider à continuer à faire vivre notre petit podcast, n’hésitez pas à aller sur le site : http://bit.ly/SoutientDeOufffMerci de nous laisser un petit commentaire et des petites étoiles si Oufff vous plait.  A bientôt pour un nouvel épisode. 

Matt and Matt embark on episode 60 and discuss being down with the sickness, summoning Colonel Sanders, NASA's Icarus Project and a Once Upon A Time In Hollywood review. Weird News including the repercussions of a drive thru failure, baby shower heat packers, too lazy to work but not drunk enough to come in, and Josh Brolin  burnt taint. Keep the sun not shining where it don't.You'll thank us later.

What do you get when you put a group of people with disabilities, people who are fat, LGBTQIA+, elders and many other sorts on one street corner? No, not a bad joke! You get…a PROTEST to #CloseTheCamps because #NoBodyIsDisposable. Photo by Leslie Mah Hear highlights from speeches, interviews and other live recordings from this powerful show of solidarity at the August 28 ICE protest.  The protest was designed to bring together fat & disability communities as a united front.  It was part of the Month of Momentum:  30 Days of Action to Close the Camps (ICE SF) Photo By Regan Barshear More information about the protest Check out the photos gathered so far.   Add yours to the collection. Hundreds of people supported through an online campaign.  Check the #NoBodyIsDisposable hashtag on social media for hundreds of photos. Read and share scholar activist Caleb Luna's remarks from the action. There was a companion action on the same day organized by Fat Rose folks in Indiana! They had 100 folks come out! Check out the photos. Here's the short list of actions people can take from home. One group to connect with locally is the Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps Bay Area, whose campaign is targeting the tech companies who support ICE. The organizers encourage you to stay in touch with Fat Rose, Disability Justice Culture Club, Hand in Hand and Senior and Disability Action. Organizational Sponsors: Access-Centered Movement (accesscenteredmovement.com) AXIS Dance Company Big Moves Bay Area (bigmoves.org) Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL) (crilhayward.org) Disability Justice Culture Club Disability Visibility Project (disabilityvisibilityproject.com) Diversability Inc. (mydiversability.com) Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) (dredf.org) Fat Lib Ink (fatlibink.com) Fat Rose (fatrose.org) FAT!SO? (fatso.com) FLARE (The Fat Legal Advocacy, Research, and Education Project) Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network (domesticemployers.org) Health Justice Commons (healthjusticecommons.org) The Icarus Project (theicarusproject.net) Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF) (bit.ly/IdrissStelley) Justice 4 Kayla Moore (justiceforkaylamoore.wordpress.com) Krip Hop Nation (kriphopnation.com) Making Waves fat swim (makingwavesswim.com) National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (naafa.org) NOLOSE (nolose.org) PleasureNess Literary Academy/Reclaiming Ugly (pleasurenesslitacademy.com) POOR Magazine/PrensaPobre (poormagazine.org) Pushing Limits Radio (KPFA) (pushinglimitsradio.org) Reclamation Press (reclapress.com) Senior and Disability Action (sdaction.org) Sins Invalid (sinsinvalid.org) Urban Jazz Dance Company (realurbanjazzdance.com) Women's March Disability Caucus ————- Town Hall On Long Term Care Expanding Long Term Services and Supports for All Thursday, September 19 9:45 am – 12 noon Korat Auditorium Downtown Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco Join us for a town hall about the solving the State's need for affordable long-term supports and services so that we may all live and age with dignity.   Get your free ticket here. By 2030 9 million Californians will be over the age of 65. That's 3 million more than there are today! This unprecedented growth in the senior population is driving a skyrocketing demand for long term services and supports (LTSS), yet we see increasing evidence that paying for these services is bankrupting middle class seniors and their families throughout the state. The event will include a panel discussion with state legislators, Senator Scott Wiener, Assembly member David Chiu and Assembly member Phil Ting on the challenges that seniors and people with disabilities face when seeking affordable long term care and the caregivers who provide these essential services. Food, childcare, Spanish interpretation and other accommodations will be provided. Be sure to fill out the RSVP. This event is hosted by the San Francisco Care Council, including UDW/AFSCME Local 3930, SEIU Local 2015, Caring Across Generations, the California Domestic Workers Coalition, SF Family Caregiver Alliance, Senior and Disability Action, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, and Hand in Hand: Domestic Employers Network. ———— Agenda de Cuidado: Apoyo a Largo Plazo En Expansión Para Todos Únase a nosotros para un ayuntamiento sobre la solución de la necesidad del estado CA de servicios y apoyos asequibles a largo plazo (LTSS) para que todos podamos vivir y envejecer con dignidad. En 2030, 9 millón Californianos serán mayores de 65 años. Eso es 3 millón más de lo que hay hoy. Este crecimiento sin precedentes en la población de adultos mayores está impulsando una demanda vertiginosa de servicios y apoyos a largo plazo (LTSS). Sin embargo, vemos más y más evidencia de que pagar por estos servicios está llevando a la bancarrota a las personas mayores y a sus familias de clase media en todo el estado. Únase a nosotros para una discusión con legisladores del estado de CA sobre los desafíos que enfrentan las personas mayores y las personas con discapacidades que buscan cuidado a largo plazo asequible y los asistentes personales que brindan estos servicios esenciales. Se proporcionará comida, cuidado de niños, interpretación en español y otros alojamientos. Asegúrese de completar el forma para RSVP. Este evento es organizado por el Consejo de Cuidado de San Francisco, que incluye UDW / AFSCME Local 3930, SEIU Local 2015, Cuidado a Través de Generaciones, la Coalición de Trabajadoras del Hogar, Alianza de Cuidadores Familiares de SF, Acción de Mayor Edad & Discapacidad, La Fundación para Centros de Vivir Independiente de California, y Mano a Mano: El Red de Empleadores Domésticos. The post Close the Camps – Protest Coverage appeared first on KPFA.

What is the glue that binds our resistance work? How does healing justice fit into our resistance for the long haul? We sat down with Kifu Faruq of the Icarus Project to discuss healing justice as a foundational part of organizing and activism work. As we're witnessing the philanthropy field moving more funds towards healing justice work, we want to make sure the message is loud and clear that healing justice funding needs to be sustainable. The Icarus Project is an Own Our Power Fund and Mobilize Power Fund grantee.

In this practice, Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project offers us a concrete tool called "Mad Maps" to help us develop a plan to support our own mental health. Use this worksheet to follow along and participate: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I2vtfT-j1R4KcA5F710YvD9XiVB8xpjv/view?usp=sharing In the previous episode (Destigmatizing Mental Health), we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the first place, how it interplays with systems of oppression, suicide, ableism, medication, hospitalization, and more. The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. We transform ourselves through transforming the world around us. http://www.theicarusproject.net Rhiana Anthony (she, they, boo) is a queer black girl magician working toward collective liberation through community organizing, soulful facilitation, and healing justice. Her roots run from the Third Coast of Houston, TX and the Piney Woods of Marshall, TX. Rhiana currently works as the Icarus Project webinar coordinator and facilitator, founder/consultant of Conjure Community Healing Arts, and trainer for The Isaiah Young Institute. ----------- JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up for our email list to receive occasional communication from us with resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter  ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer - and check our new community levels and rewards launched just this week!! - at www.patreon.com/healingjustice  You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb ----------- Thank you to Rachel Ishikawa for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.

Esta semana, Agustina Vidal del Proyecto Icarus nos ofrece una actividad para apoyar a nuestra salud mental que se llama "Mapas Locos." Se puede usar este guión de práctica para hacer esta actividad: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_GwfnFr6pEwUEsPZptbJ35oems0s78kM_CiCVKwhDcw/edit* Download the previous episode to hear this practice in English / Se puede escuchar esta práctica en ingles por el episodio previo * También se puede escuchar el episodio conversacional con Agustina y Rhiana en ingles (episodio 35) donde hablamos de la salud mental, suicidio, la politica de los sistemas de la salud mental, y más. -- Agustina Vidal ha sido parte del Proyecto Icarus desde 2006, y ahora sirve como Directora Programatica. Ella tiene su maestría como consejera de salud mental, y se enfoca en desarrollar recursos nuevos para los estados unidos y latinoamerica. Se puede aprender más al http://www.theicarusproject.net -- ÚNETE A LA COMUNIDAD HEALING JUSTICE: Se puede juntar a nuestra lista de correo electrónico en www.healingjustice.org Háblanos en las redes sociales: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter  Si Ud quiere donar algo para apoyar a este proyecto, visita a www.patreon.com/healingjustice GRACIAS:Revisión de audio por Zach Meyer del COALROOMMúsica por Danny O’Brien y Zach MeyerDiseño gráfico por Josiah Werning  

For our first full episode back with Season 2, we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the first place, how it interplays with systems of oppression, suicide, ableism, medication, hospitalization, and more.   The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. We transform ourselves through transforming the world around us. http://www.theicarusproject.net Agustina Vidal has been part of The Icarus Project Community since 2006, and is currently the program Director. She has a masters degree in mental health counseling, and her focus is the development of new tools and resources for both the U.S. and Latin America. Rhiana Anthony (she, they, boo) is a queer black girl magician working toward collective liberation through community organizing, soulful facilitation, and healing justice. Her roots run from the Third Coast of Houston, TX and the Piney Woods of Marshall, TX. Rhiana currently works as the Icarus Project webinar coordinator and facilitator, founder/consultant of Conjure Community Healing Arts, and trainer for The Isaiah Young Institute. ----------- PRACTICE: Next week, join Agustina and Rhiana for their practice episodes where they teach us how to make our own Mad Map - a plan to support our own mental health. Mad Maps will be offered both in English and in Spanish. ----------- RESOURCES: Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla Fett The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Some Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery by bell hooks The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways by Wanda D. McCaslin (restorative and transformative justice) Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD): https://boldorganizing.org/ Join Icarus Project online spaces and find more resources at http://www.theicarusproject.net ----------- JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up for our email list to receive occasional communication from us with resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter  ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at www.patreon.com/healingjustice  You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb ----------- Thank you to Rachel Ishikawa for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.

Don Karp, the psychological sage from the hippie age, joins InnerVerse for a chat about overcoming the physical and spiritual trials that lead some into temporary psychosis. Don's experience in both conventional and alternative mental health help has led him to provide personalized peer-to-peer support for people who are dealing with paranoia or other stressed out mental states.Don's Website Don Karp on Medium Check out the extended episode exclusive for InnerVerse Plus+ members and get double length interviews and early episode access by joining! Support your favorite show! :)Topics:⦁ Don's experience in the emerging counterculture of the 60's⦁ Overcoming generational trauma cycles⦁ Advice for set and setting and using psychedelics wisely (or not at all)⦁ How young Don developed paranoid delusions and wound up in psychiatric treatment⦁ The genocide being enacted through big pharma's distribution of deadly drugs⦁ Paranoia vs. Pronoia (the feeling that the universe is conspiring in your favor) and spiritual emergency⦁ Discovering and reintegrating the alien parts of our self ⦁ The three things Don did to break out of the revolving door cycle of going in and out of professional psychiatric care⦁ How Don rewove his identity after recovering from psychosis⦁ Rainbow Gatherings and The New World Culture ⦁ Don describes some of the mental issues he's helped coach people through and the books he's working on⦁ Plans to create an international co-housing community for elders⦁ The Icarus Project - theicarusproject.net Plus+ Extension (Subscribe!)⦁ Don tells about the values he learned from his experiences at Woodstock⦁ Learning to be a good listener and healing through compassionate conversation⦁ What was and wasn't adopted from the Iroquois Confederacy by the United States Constitution⦁ The disease gene myth: epigenetics and how our consciousness and environment control gene expression. Look up the work of Dr. Bruce Lipton ⦁ The problem with long term psychiatric medication and the thousands that die from prescriptions ⦁ Breaking Psychic cataracts that cloud our spiritual awareness by doing creative activities⦁ How our food choices impact our energy and sanity levels ⦁ Advice for dealing with hazardous environmental energyEpisode Music: IchisanCome out to the Darklight Revival - Oct. 13th - Downtown Bentenville ArkansasI'll see you there! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join us in a conversation with therapist and strength athlete Molly Merson, discussing mental health and its effects on our training. We all get The Feels from time to time - what happens when those feels get the better of us, in and outside the gym? How can we as lifters make friends with our mental state, and how can we as coaches better serve our trainees in managing these struggles? We get into ALL of that and more in this episode that includes a glowing recap of USSF Nationals weekend and Cassi and Katherine’s reunion on the West Coast!   LINKS: Molly’s website: www.mollymerson.com Sliding scale & other therapy in the Bay Area: Women's Therapy Center: www.womenstherapy.org The Psychotherapy Institute: www.tpi-berkeley.org Access Institute: www.accessinst.org Sliding scale & other therapy in Richmond, VA: Healing Circle Counseling: www.healingcirclecounseling.com Heart and Mind Therapy: www.heartmindrva.com Mind Body Art Essentials: www.mindbodyartessentials.com If you’re thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States at 1-800-273-8255 Crisis text line: Text 741741 from anywhere to reach a trained crisis counselor. The Icarus Project is a group that works to decolonize and destigmatize mental health and neurodivergence and focuses on mutual aid. Check them out at http://theicarusproject.net/   Find us on Instagram or Facebook @morefemalestrength or email us at info@morefemalestrength.com.

My guest today is a literature professor who writes a blog called Dating Tips For The Feminist Man, under the pen name "Nora Samaran". Last year, she wrote an article that went viral, changed my life, and transformed my marriage. It's called "The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture". Just so we have a basic agreement of what is meant by “rape culture”, a quick Google brings up this definition: a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse. Wikipedia goes a little bit further: Rape culture is a sociological concept used to describe a setting in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality.  Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, slut shaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by some forms of sexual violence, or some combination of these.  Nora's article does a beautiful job of summarizing attachment theory as it applies to adult relationships and then stepping back to look a the larger implications within a patriarchal culture. We talk about how western culture shames men for feeling and nurturing, how it invisibilizes white supremacy and anti-black racism for white people. In this episode, I give a brief summary of attachment theory and the four main attachment styles. You can read more here in the article where I dish about my own marriage. Off the top, Nora mentions The Icarus Project, along with bell hooks and Kimberlé Crenshaw. We also mention Tada Hozumi and cite his work over at SelfishActivist.com. Adrienne Maree Brown is quoted and she is definitely someone to learn from. The book The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin, is described as well.

This week, we have an interview with Will Hall. Will is a mental health advocate, counsellor, writer, and teacher. Will advocates the recovery approach to mental illness and is recognised internationally as an innovator in the treatment and social response to psychosis. In 2001, he co-founded the Freedom Center and from 2004-2009 was a co-coordinator for The Icarus Project. He has consulted for Mental Disability Rights International, the Family Outreach and Response Program,  and the Office on Violence Against Women, and in 2012 presented to the American Psychiatric Association‘s Institute on Psychiatric Services. As an author, Will has written extensively on mental health, social justice, and environmental issues, he is well known for the excellent Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Medications which is one of the first places that listeners should look to for help and support when considering taking or withdrawing from psychiatric medications.  Will’s latest book is Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness, released in 2016 it presents interviews with more than 60 psychiatric patients, scientists, journalists, doctors, activists, and artists to create a vital new conversation about empowering the human spirit. Outside Mental Health invites us to rethink what we know about bipolar, psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, medications, and mental illness in society. Will also hosts Madness Radio which broadcasts on FM and is also available as a podcast. For listeners, I recommend that you listen in and subscribe to the Madness radio podcast, particularly as the Harm reduction guide to coming off psychiatric medications can be heard in full here. In this episode, we discuss: ▪How Will became involved with the psychiatric system while living in the San Francisco Bay area ▪His experiences of being treated with a wide range of psychiatric drugs ▪How he came to meet with other psychiatric survivors and take control of his own recovery ▪The setting up of the Freedom Centre in Western Massachusetts ▪The creation of the ‘Harm reduction guide to coming off psychiatric drugs’ ▪How this led to Will’s work in counselling, training and education around psychiatric drugs ▪How Will approached collaborating with a wide range of contributors to develop the Harm reduction guide ▪That Will wanted to adopt a careful, non judgemental approach to his work to support people with their medications ▪How Will feels he reached more people because they knew that they weren’t going to be judged ▪That the research and evidence does not support the idea that psychiatric drugs are treating some brain disease or correcting an underlying brain chemical imbalance ▪The fear that exists around these kind of mental health difficulties ▪The dangers of psychiatric drugs ▪That people with lived experience of psychiatric medications need to share their experiences, particularly where withdrawal is concerned ▪That sometimes passivity can contribute to reliance on medications but people need to take their health into their own hands ▪That we should really be looking to a community based approach to supporting people with emotional distress or trauma ▪That we need to create healthy communities that support each other ▪That if people are considering stopping their psychiatric drugs they should make use of the Harm reduction guide because there is no single answer ▪That people should also make sure that they have a support network in place because stopping the drugs can become an isolating experience ▪That drug withdrawal is a life change process not just a chemical change in your brain ▪That psychiatry can make not claim to have answered the mind/body question ▪That fear is a big factor when considering not relying on medication ▪That where withdrawal is concerned, time tends to be on your side if you can get through the discomfort and difficulty   To listen on Mad in America: https://goo.gl/tyyLmt Podcast show notes: https://goo.gl/18cg4L To get in touch with us email: podcasts@madinamerica.com  

Mad Pride and Radical Mental Health: Sascha Altman DuBrul and The Icarus Project This week we’re talking to Sascha Altman DuBrul, the co-founder of the Icarus Project, a radical peer-to-peer mental health support group, about mad pride and radical mental health. The organization started in 2003 when DuBrul and a few friends started traveling the country and talking to people who had been diagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic but rejected the dominant models of treatment. The Icarus Project is active nationally and at the local level: National Chapter: theicarusproject.net NYC Chapter: www.nycicarus.org You can read work published by DuBrul and other members of the Icarus Project at Interference Archive. Some titles include: Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs Madness & Oppression: A Mad Maps Guide (Images on our blog at: interferencearchive.org/audio-interfe…ltman-dubrul/) DuBrul has written recently about spirituality and mental health on his website Maps to the Other Side: www.mapstotheotherside.net/ Music: “Outside the Terminal” by Blue Dot Sessions “500 Channels” by Choking Victim from No Gods/No Managers (1999) “What Does Anybody Know About Anything” by Chris Zabriskie “I Don’t See the Branches I See the Leaves” by Chris Zabriskie Produced by Interference Archive.

This week we're talking to Sascha Altman DuBrul, the co-founder of the Icarus Project, a radical peer-to-peer mental health support group, about mad pride and radical mental health. The organization started in 2003 when DuBrul and a few friends started traveling the country and talking to people who had been diagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic but rejected the dominant models of treatment. The Icarus Project is active nationally and at the local level: National Chapter: theicarusproject.net NYC Chapter: www.nycicarus.org You can read work published by DuBrul and other members of the Icarus Project at Interference Archive. Some titles include: Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs Madness & Oppression: A Mad Maps Guide (Images on our blog at: http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-38-sascha-altman-dubrul/) DuBrul has written recently about spirituality and mental health on his website Maps to the Other Side: http://www.mapstotheotherside.net/ Music: "Outside the Terminal" by Blue Dot Sessions "500 Channels" by Choking Victim from No Gods/No Managers (1999) "What Does Anybody Know About Anything" by Chris Zabriskie "I Don't See the Branches I See the Leaves" by Chris Zabriskie Produced by Interference Archive.

Now available as an audiobook!  Based in more than 10 years work in the peer support movement,The Icarus Project and Freedom Center’s 52-page guide is used internationally by individuals, families, professionals, and organizations to support reducing and coming off psychiatric drugs. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, psychiatric drug withdrawal, information for people staying on […]

It’s a new year and parenting podcast purists might find this episode frustrating because we barely talk about our kids. In short, we have a lot of feelings about 2017 as parents, as activists, and as regular old people. -- Whitney’s thing: Roll n’ Play toddler game https://www.amazon.com/Thinkfun-Roll-Play-Board-Game/dp/B0070A9OUA -- Drew’s thing: the Icarus Project http://theicarusproject.net/ Just a Phase is produced by Whitney Crispell. Theme music is “Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix)” by spinningmerkaba, and used under a Creative Commons license. Find us online at http://justaphasepodcast.tumblr.com or @justaphasepodcast

This time we are joined by Anto from Icarus Miniatures to talk about his upcoming 28/32/35mm (it'll make sense when you listen!) sci-fi skirmish game Kickstarter - The Icarus Project. Before that we talk a little bit about the recent Halo Ground Command upgrade boxes from Spartan, together with latest FFG X-Wing announcement and the usual GW fare in Hit or Miss. Anto's a great guy and we had a blast, so listen and enjoy!

This is a July We Spin Mix and a special issue of the Immersed podcast by Merse. Here, the UK-based DJ and producer has pulled together 12 tracks that have been carefully selected to immerse you in the wonderful sounds of such talents as Paul Thomas, Yariv Bernstein, Luca Rossi and one of his favourites; Pole Folder. Special mention needs to go to the featured track "Phoenix" by Brent Sadowick, that is part of his newly released Icarus Project. This is an entire album synchronised to the movie The Matrix and is definitely worth a listen! Tracklisting: 01 - 00:00 - UltraÌsta - Smalltalk (Sasha Beatless Mix) 02 - 03:50 - Paul Thomas - Sunrise (Antillas Vs Dankann Remix) 03 - 10:05 - Ø [Phase] - Perplexed (Rødhåd's Extended Mix) 04 - 17:55 - Deadmau5 - Avaritia 05 - 21:28 - Yariv Bernstein - Highsus (Original Mix) 06 - 23:59 - Pan-Pot - Third Eye 07 - 29:02 - Nicolas Agudelo - Shamballa (Luca Rossi Remix) 08 - 36:01 - Pole Folder & Simon Latham - U.S.E. 09 - 42:45 - Sadowick - Phoenix 10 - 46:46 - Simon Says - Alter Ego 11 - 50:27 - Eekkoo - Towers 12 - 53:57 - Spooky - Belong (Sasha Involver Remix [Prankster Edit]) We hope you enjoy the next 60 minutes and don't forget to check out Merse at http://www.facebook.com/mersemusic

How did the New York underground of punk rock music, squatting, and homeless protest give rise to a thriving and innovative peer-run mental health community? Are there creative gifts to be found in the depths of madness? Does the future of Mad Pride lie in the joining of activism with spirituality? Icarus Project co-founder Sascha Altman DuBrul discusses his escape into apocalyptic visions and psychiatric hospitals, and how he was inspired to challenge the identity of bipolar disorder.   [Read more...]

What is the mad movement's best response to science? How is mad pride different from gay pride? Do we want to become equal with "normal" people -- or challenge the idea of normal itself? What about suffering and the risk of romanticizing madness? Icarus Project organizer, psychiatrist, and theorist Bradley Lewis, author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: Birth of Postpsychiatry, discusses the identity politics of madness.   [Read more...]

Labor doula and Icarus Project student organizer Annie Robinson talks about her experience in the mental health system as an adolescent, and how it led to her interest in changing medical birthing procedures and becoming a doula. Annie discusses the trauma caused by doctor interventions in childbirth and its lasting effects on both children and mothers.   [Read more...]

Long time Icarus Project organizer, open source computer software architect, and graduate doctoral student Jeffrey Goins discusses his psychiatric experiences and insights from the world of technology applied to the world of madness. Topics include the Eli Lilly Zyprexa memos scandal and intellectual property rights; freedom in a surveillance society; prophecy and ancient wisdom, and the "end of forgetting."   [Read more...]

Icarus Project organizers Madigan Shive, Molly Sprengelmeyer, Will Hall, Neil Gong, and Sascha DuBrul visit Virginia Tech, site of the violent tragedy, and discuss campus mental health issues with students.   [Read more...]

Mina, a main organizer with the Portand Icarus Project, discusses her experiences diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia - bipolar type, coming off meds, homelessness, mysticism, and helping people through psychotic crisis, as well as reading from her 'zine.   [Read more...]