Portland Icarus still exists! We gather once a week for our Peer Support /
Discussion Group meetings. From these meetings we will organize radical
mental health activism. We plan to start holding potluck dinners and game
nights. We will compile our writings and art for a Portland Icarus
reader/zine.  If you have any questions please contact Tara at
LolaPortland@yahoo.com

 Sunday Peer Support / Discussion Group at People's Co-op:

Come to our weekly Peer Support and Discussion Meetings, Sundays at 12:30 PM. We can be found upstairs in the community room at People's Food Co-op, 3029 SE 21st Ave, Portland, OR (corner of 21st & SE Brooklyn).

This meeting is not limited to bipolar people, all mad cats are welcome.

Portland Icarus Mission Statement:

The Icarus Project is working to create a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of "mental illness" rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.

We are achieving this through creating community by and for people of Portland, Oregon with bipolar disorder and related madness, which we refer to as "dangerous gifts". We believe that when we learn to take care of ourselves through activism, peer support groups, collective organizing, art, music, writing, spiritual journeying, nutrition, and exercise; the intertwined threads of madness and creativity can be tools of inspiration and hope in a repressed and damaged world.

Using a radical mental health model means rejecting the socially constructed idea that we are "sick", "ill", "disordered", or "disabled", creating new models of wellness that fit our individual needs. By supporting one another through these times, with an evolving pattern with which to care for one another, we recognize a deeper healing that can take place instead of, or along side of, common models of health. 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.