Radical Mental Health & Madness

ProjectLETS

We build peer support collectives, lead political education, develop new knowledge and language around mental distress, organize and advocate for the liberation of our community members globally, and create innovative, peer-led, alternatives to our current mental health system.

MindFreedom International

“In a spirit of mutual cooperation, MindFreedom leads a nonviolent revolution of freedom, equality, truth and human rights that unites people affected by the mental health system with movements for justice everywhere.”

  • Win human rights campaigns in mental health.

  • Challenge abuse by the psychiatric drug industry.

  • Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors and mental health consumers.

  • Promote safe, humane and effective options in mental health.

Of Unsound Mind

Of Unsound Mind is a resource library and blog for rethinking the histories of madness, psychiatry, care, medicine, and science, created by and run by Sasha Durakov Warren.

Fireweed Collective

Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice and Disability Justice lens. We support the emotional wellness of all people and center QTBIPOC folks in our internal leadership, programs, and resources. Our work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system. Our model for understanding ‘severe mental illness’ is community and relationship-based and divests from the prison industrial complex and psych wards.

Peer Respite Directory

A peer respite is a voluntary, short-term, overnight program that provides community-based, non-clinical crisis support to help people find new understanding and ways to move forward. It operates 24 hours per day in a homelike environment. This website was created by Live & Learn, Inc. to provide the public access to resources about peer respites in the United States.

True Node Therapy Resource Page

This is the link to True Node Therapy’s resource page, which has a plethora of information about an incredible range of topics. These include: abolition, anti-racist tools, autism + ADHD, autistic catatonia, autism research, crisis, disability, fat liberation, sensory aids, sleep, plague/COVID, kink + sexual health, gender / sexuality / LGBTQ+, trauma, drugs + harm reduction, a library, and community providers.

Wildflower Alliance

The Wildflower Alliance supports healing and empowerment for our broader communities and people who have been impacted by psychiatric diagnosis, trauma, extreme states, homelessness, problems with substances and other life-interrupting challenges.

We do this through:
* Peer-to-peer support & genuine human relationships
* Alternative Healing Practices
* Learning Opportunities
* Advocacy

Wildflower Alliance offers a peer respite, a warmline, a discord server, and various resources and trainings including Mad Maps.

Mad in America

Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

Abolition Centered Care Provider Database

For a list of providers who center abolition in their care work, please check out this spreadsheet. Curated and updated by Dandelion Hill from Peer Support Space.

Mad Resources

A padlet of resources from various community organizations and peers for mental health and madness. Curated and updated by Mel.

Mad Queer Organizing Strategies

Mad Queer Organizing Strategies are the trainings and resources that I offer to support folks who may identify/be identified as people living with mental illness, folks who identify with experiencing emotional crisis, and anyone who is looking for tools to support grounding in disability justice, mutual aid, and abolitionist strategies.

TinyLantern

Carly works formally with individuals and dyads as a therapist, and informally as a tarot reader, and with groups as a facilitator of hard conversations. Carly also creates suicide intervention resources and zines.

Nonverbal Cards from True Node Therapy

Nonverbal Lock Screens and business cards that are beautiful and help you communicate during a shutdown. Full PDF download has several color combinations and also has lockscreens without the text on top. Background color options include Blue, Purple, Deep Green, Pale Green, Pale Pink.