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.
Our first book, Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness; A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds, was self-published in March 2004. The book is currently in its 5th printing. 
Download and print out the first draft of our long-awaited Support Manual, titled 
This poster was created by Ashley McNamara for the Jolie Holland/Bonfire Madigan benefit show in February 2006. You can order beautiful full-color 11 x 17 copies by e-mailing orders AT theicarusproject DOT net
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. 
Check out our recently printed sticker, which features the Icarus Project's "You are not alone" stencil surrounded by the text "Building Radical Mental Health Supports in a World Gone Mad ... www.theicarusproject.net." 
Beautiful full-color promotional postcards with images from Eric Drooker and Ashley McNamara. Cards are available by mail or by download. 
