We are a community based website, support network, and underground media project created by and for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder and other dangerous gifts that are commonly labeled as mental illnesses. We believe that when we learn to take care of ourselves, the intertwined threads of madness and creativity can be tools of inspiration and hope in a repressed and damaged world. Our goal is to help people like ourselves feel less alienated, and to allow us - both as individuals and as a community - to tap into the true potential that lies between brilliance and madness.

Please join us in Daily Roll Call you will find in Open Dialog.

Please see our How To Use This Site document with any questions, or visit the discussion forum Technical Problems.

Registration Agreement

All users of this site must agree to the following guidelines:

1. Remarks that are personally attacking, overtly confrontational, insulting, or otherwise silencing to fellow Icarus Project members are not acceptable under any circumstances. Please respond to people's arguments but do not attack anyone's character. If you cannot handle yourself and you treat other members of the community with blatant disrespect or harassment, you will receive one warning. If you do not change your behavior, you will be asked to leave the site.
2. Racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, and otherwise oppressive remarks will not be tolerated under any circumstances.
3. No advertising, no spam, no selling of products.
4. This is a multi-age site, so no pornography. We are all required to follow all applicable state and federal laws.
5. We are not dispensing legal or medical advice. The opinions of people posting on The Icarus Project website are not the opinions of The Icarus Project.

We reserve the right to remove posts that do not follow the site's basic guidelines. Users that continuously break the guidelines will be put on "break" - temporarily asked to leave the site for a period of time to be decided by the moderator group.

While we make every effort to allow as much freedom in our forums as possible, we are striving to create a safe and respectful community where all of us can feel comfortable discussing intimate details of our lives and join in solidarity as we try to survive and change the world around us.

A Note About Our Politics

This website was created by people who are not only considered to have experiences labeled as bipolar disorder and other kinds of mental illness diagnoses and think that this has positive and beautiful aspects, but people who have a radical view of how this society should be dismantled and recreated and are driven to working towards real live justice for all people. We identify with the long traditions of solidarity with the oppressed of the world. We firmly believe that for true healing to be possible we must work both on transforming ourselves and transforming the world around us. We do not ask that any Icarus Project member have any particular political affiliation or lifestyle choice, but we do insist that you respect the sometimes controversial and frequently pretty radical discussions that unfold on this site regularly around topics like race, class, politics, capitalism, gender, the pharmaceutical industry, and much much more.

To read more about our fundamental beliefs and guiding principles, click here.

If you want to talk about manic depression and related madness as if it exists in a socio-political vacuum, this may not be the site for you, or you may find it wise to stay out of politically charged threads that make you uncomfortable.

To find out more about The Icarus Project's current structure and goals, visit the About Us section of our site.