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Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 7:55pm

There is an urgent need to talk publicly about the relationship between social injustice and our mental health. We need to start redefining what it actually means to be mentally healthy, not just on an individual level, but on collective, communal, and global levels.

A group of us who have years of experience practicing peer-based community mental health support, including many Icarus folks, got together to compile a manual for organizers and participants in the #occupy movement.

Here we go again

Submitted by fleeting_phoenix on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 1:48pm

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If amphetamines indeed have me jogging on a hamster wheel, can I get one of those clear balls instead? So I can get out a bit more?

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Submitted by The Absurd Hero on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 1:32pm

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... colors aren't colors and the air feels different when I am in this state. It feels stale. Almost like there is no air at all. Like leftover air. Here and there. Tiny puffs of clouds of oxygen that will soon dissipate. And it doesn't scare me. I don't care. I still prefer this to terror. As awful as this is. I can always sleep for days. Terror incapacitates you and takes away your ability to escape. You become a prisoner in your own body. You can't even trust your own senses. Heat might be cold and everything might be a delusion. I wonder if I will die in a fire one day because I believe it is sand or confetti or something. That would be a pleasant way to die. My last thoughts would be that I was on a beach enjoying myself in the sun or at a party with friends that I made up. I wouldn't mind terribly being totally insane. This half-way thing is a bit horrible. Watching myself be insane and being aware of it is kind of the worst thing that can happen to any human.

Methods of creative releases I used while in a psychiatric hospital.

Submitted by TimeWanderer on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 7:54pm

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I spent two stays in a psychiatric hospital this past summer. The first time I dealt with nightly manic episodes with psychosis. We all had journals. I dove right into releasing inner demons. Draw...write to release your inner pain. I would write with black ink and push down on the pen as hard as I could. Taking the enrgey to do that for pages made me feel better. I was releasing inner demons and other thoughts, but by pressing down hard on the pen took away someof the anxiety. I highly reccomend this tool.