Publications

We assembled the beautiful and jagged pieces of our collective experience, the lessons and the scars, to create an atlas of alternative maps to the particular breed of madness that gets called bipolar, and the ways people are making it through. Traveling through subconscious and waking worlds, from hospital waiting rooms to collective house kitchens, from the desert to the supermarket, these pages chart some of the underground tunnels beneath the mainstream medical model of treatment and the pathologizing language that alienates so many of us.

This 52-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 information on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, withdrawal, support for people staying on their medications, a detailed Resource section, and much more. It emphasizes years of direct personal experience with medications and the experiences of madness they are prescribed to treat, as well as extensive, state-of-the-art research that goes far beyond the usual pharmaceutical and mainstream medical perspectives.

A personal perspective of one of the founding members of The Icarus Project working in its first year on the ground in New York City, in all its manic depressive glory. A zine about superpowers and psych drugs and epic meetings of people trying to change the world.

The role of The Misled Youth Network is to disseminate art and information that inspires creativity and autonomy, to unite youth of many different backgrounds and cultures, and to provide education and resourcees to help other kids develop the skills necessary to express themselves, strengthen their communities, and advocate for youth.