The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's 40-page guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, withdrawal, detailed Resource section, information for people staying on their medications, and much more. Written by Will Hall, with a 14-member health professional Advisory board providing research assistance and 24 other collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Ashley McNamara. Download a .pdf to read or a 'zine version to print and fold into a booklet (instructions included). Published copies also available on our Publications page.
Download and print out the first draft of our long-awaited Support Manual, titled 
This is a comic Sophie Crumb made for us about being sure you eat good food, sleep, exercise, take your meds/herbs/etc., and have some kinda schedule to keep you from getting too crazy"¦ This version is designed with a smaller Icarus Project logo to fit nicely on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet. 
This image, a comic about looking for your people at the "National Association for the Eradication of Mental Illness" and finding them at The Icarus Project instead, was designed by Becky Cloonan. This version has a smaller Icarus logo at the bottom and is designed to print just right on an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper. We also offer an 11" x 17" printed version for sale by mail. 
The text of this poster reads: There is Beauty in a Crazy Crooked Mind: Birds With Perfectly Symmetrical Feathers Can't Actually Fly." The image of birds flying off the telephone wires was originally designed by Ashley and screen printed by Icarus member Eris as a full size 11" x 17" poster for our December 2004 artshow 
