A (non-exhaustive) Psychosis/Altered States, Mental Health and Disability Resource List:
Disclaimer: Not all resources will resonate with or be applicable to everyone's needs. Most resources that I am aware of are based in the United States.
Thank you to all who have made these resources available.
Thank you to all who have made these resources available.
Mental Health Groups
Project Lets:
"We build peer-led communities of support, education & advocacy for folks with lived experience of mental illness, trauma, Disability, and/or neurodivergence. We believe that principles of Disability Justice are key components to supporting collective healing and our human rights."
Fireweed Collective:
"Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. We help support the emotional wellness of all people, and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Our work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system."
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM):
"BEAM is a national training, movement building and grant making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of Black and marginalized communities."
Mad in America:
"Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad)." Offers a webzine and educational courses (ranging in costs; several free) about psychiatry, medication, and Mad Pride.
Peer Support Space, Inc:
"Peer Support Space was founded as a peer-led organization, that exists outside of the current system, where we use our lived experience to support and hold space for one another as we navigate our unique journeys with life struggles, mental illness and/or substance misuse challenges, neurodivergence, disability, grief, trauma, or other obstacles to mental wellness. We use, and help others use, the power of lived experience to support, educate, and guide one another while providing additional, free options for mental wellness."
Strong365:
"Welcome to the Strong 365 mental health support community! Through online education, 24/7 peer support & connection to specialized care across the U.S., our goal is to shorten the path to quality mental health support for young people."
Students with Psychosis:
"Students With Psychosis empowers student leaders globally through community building and collaboration...Our primary objectives include: growing and connecting our virtual and in-person programs, organizing outreach initiatives, and founding in-person college clubs/affiliates."
ISPS:
"ISPS is an international organization promoting psychological and social treatments for persons with psychosis (a term which includes persons diagnosed with 'schizophrenia')."
Hearing Voices Network:
Organization aiming to "Raise awareness of the diversity of voices, visions and similar experiences" with 20 international chapters.
Disability, Mental Health and Art
Sins Invalid:
"Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized."
FolkLab:
"We are a community-based, interdisciplinary art project that is committed to producing work by and creating opportunities for under-represented artists." Offers detailed infographics and webinars about radical mental health.
Crisis Response
Peer Respite Directory:
A directory of peer respites by state. From their website: "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."
Treatment Advocacy Center:
A guide to state laws about psychiatric crisis response & involuntary commitment.
BEAM's List of Mobile Crisis Unit Services in the U.S.:
"Mobile crisis, or mobile crisis rapid response teams, are a mental health service which supports the community by providing immediate response emergency mental health evaluations and crises services. In many areas, they offer an alternative to calling 911 or the police as professionals who will respond will often be trained in managing mental health crises and distress. However, please note: some mobile crisis units may also inform police. We encourage folks to read their site (as they constantly change) before contacting. This list is provided as a directory resource."
National Empowerment Center Crisis Alternatives:
"These non-medical alternative programs offer a comfortable, non-judgmental environment in which one might be able to process stresses as well as explore new options."
Advocacy
ADA guide:
A guide to disability rights laws in the U.S.
How to Get On:
A self-advocacy guide for people with chronic illnesses in the U.S., with an emphasis on ME/CFS. Includes guides for apply for disability, living on disability, applying for home aids, applying for housing, living in housing, financial survival, and SSI regulations.
Disability Rights Network:
"Collectively, the P&A/CAP network is the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States." Find resources in your state.
The Bazelon Center:
"We were pivotal in expanding the civil rights movement to include fighting discrimination against, and segregation of, people with mental disabilities. Today, the Bazelon Center accomplishes its goals through a unique combination of litigation, public policy advocacy, coalition building and leadership, public education, media outreach and technical assistance—a comprehensive approach that ensures we achieve the greatest impact."
Administration for Community Living (ACL):
"Protection and Advocacy Systems (P&As) work at the state level to protect individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. There are 57 P&As in the United States and its territories, and each is independent of service-providing agencies in their states."
HEARD:
"HEARD is a cross-disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence."
A Few More Things...
Webinars
(In)Accessible Webinars Database:
List of webinars by HEARD about topics like disability justice.
ISPS Webinars:
Webinars about "Psychosis" and radical mental health
Mental Health America Webinars
Online Texts
Understanding Psychosis: Voices, Visions, and Distressing Beliefs:
An free PDF guide for young people and their supporters
Psychiatric Survivors Movement (PDF):
An essay giving a brief history of the psychiatric survivors movement.
The Unsound Mind:
"A resource library and writing hub for rethinking the history of madness and psychiatry in the fight for futures beyond controlling, containing, and calming distress in a tumultuous world."
Project Lets:
"We build peer-led communities of support, education & advocacy for folks with lived experience of mental illness, trauma, Disability, and/or neurodivergence. We believe that principles of Disability Justice are key components to supporting collective healing and our human rights."
Fireweed Collective:
"Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. We help support the emotional wellness of all people, and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Our work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system."
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM):
"BEAM is a national training, movement building and grant making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of Black and marginalized communities."
Mad in America:
"Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad)." Offers a webzine and educational courses (ranging in costs; several free) about psychiatry, medication, and Mad Pride.
Peer Support Space, Inc:
"Peer Support Space was founded as a peer-led organization, that exists outside of the current system, where we use our lived experience to support and hold space for one another as we navigate our unique journeys with life struggles, mental illness and/or substance misuse challenges, neurodivergence, disability, grief, trauma, or other obstacles to mental wellness. We use, and help others use, the power of lived experience to support, educate, and guide one another while providing additional, free options for mental wellness."
Strong365:
"Welcome to the Strong 365 mental health support community! Through online education, 24/7 peer support & connection to specialized care across the U.S., our goal is to shorten the path to quality mental health support for young people."
Students with Psychosis:
"Students With Psychosis empowers student leaders globally through community building and collaboration...Our primary objectives include: growing and connecting our virtual and in-person programs, organizing outreach initiatives, and founding in-person college clubs/affiliates."
ISPS:
"ISPS is an international organization promoting psychological and social treatments for persons with psychosis (a term which includes persons diagnosed with 'schizophrenia')."
Hearing Voices Network:
Organization aiming to "Raise awareness of the diversity of voices, visions and similar experiences" with 20 international chapters.
Disability, Mental Health and Art
Sins Invalid:
"Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized."
FolkLab:
"We are a community-based, interdisciplinary art project that is committed to producing work by and creating opportunities for under-represented artists." Offers detailed infographics and webinars about radical mental health.
Crisis Response
Peer Respite Directory:
A directory of peer respites by state. From their website: "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."
Treatment Advocacy Center:
A guide to state laws about psychiatric crisis response & involuntary commitment.
BEAM's List of Mobile Crisis Unit Services in the U.S.:
"Mobile crisis, or mobile crisis rapid response teams, are a mental health service which supports the community by providing immediate response emergency mental health evaluations and crises services. In many areas, they offer an alternative to calling 911 or the police as professionals who will respond will often be trained in managing mental health crises and distress. However, please note: some mobile crisis units may also inform police. We encourage folks to read their site (as they constantly change) before contacting. This list is provided as a directory resource."
National Empowerment Center Crisis Alternatives:
"These non-medical alternative programs offer a comfortable, non-judgmental environment in which one might be able to process stresses as well as explore new options."
Advocacy
ADA guide:
A guide to disability rights laws in the U.S.
How to Get On:
A self-advocacy guide for people with chronic illnesses in the U.S., with an emphasis on ME/CFS. Includes guides for apply for disability, living on disability, applying for home aids, applying for housing, living in housing, financial survival, and SSI regulations.
Disability Rights Network:
"Collectively, the P&A/CAP network is the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States." Find resources in your state.
The Bazelon Center:
"We were pivotal in expanding the civil rights movement to include fighting discrimination against, and segregation of, people with mental disabilities. Today, the Bazelon Center accomplishes its goals through a unique combination of litigation, public policy advocacy, coalition building and leadership, public education, media outreach and technical assistance—a comprehensive approach that ensures we achieve the greatest impact."
Administration for Community Living (ACL):
"Protection and Advocacy Systems (P&As) work at the state level to protect individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. There are 57 P&As in the United States and its territories, and each is independent of service-providing agencies in their states."
HEARD:
"HEARD is a cross-disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence."
A Few More Things...
Webinars
(In)Accessible Webinars Database:
List of webinars by HEARD about topics like disability justice.
ISPS Webinars:
Webinars about "Psychosis" and radical mental health
Mental Health America Webinars
Online Texts
Understanding Psychosis: Voices, Visions, and Distressing Beliefs:
An free PDF guide for young people and their supporters
Psychiatric Survivors Movement (PDF):
An essay giving a brief history of the psychiatric survivors movement.
The Unsound Mind:
"A resource library and writing hub for rethinking the history of madness and psychiatry in the fight for futures beyond controlling, containing, and calming distress in a tumultuous world."