Website review: The Icarus Project | Navigating the...
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•17 reviews since Jun 18, 2004
mental-health, psychology, bipolar-disorder
•theicarusproject.net
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jenlight rated 13 months ago- "Brilliance and Madness"
- Daveman rated 17 months ago
- This site kind of puzzles me. Okay, I like the whole angle of helping people with mental illness. I like the idea of encouraging people to live a normal life even though they might be a little "different". On the other hand, the site seems hostile towards psychiatry. Granted, not everything modern psychiatry does is scientifically valid, or even beneficial, but, for people whose mental illness puts them in danger or impairs their ability to function, psychiatric treatments are proven to be beneficial to the majority of patients who undergo them. On the OTHER other hand, ever since Prozac was invented, certain illnesses like major depressive disorder and attention deficit disorder have been over-diagnosed and people have even claimed to have these illnesses when they really didn't. I like the site design. I like the fact that it makes use of a Creative Commons license. I like how it talks about "the true potential that lies between brilliance and madness". I am all in favor of that. Still, I really don't know what to think about this site so far.
- jackd rated 37 months ago
- An absolutely phenomenal resource. I first came across them via a book I picked up at The Milwaukee Bicycle Collective's open house. Although it's centered on manic-depression (and dealing with it) I'd recommend it to anyone, especially anyone who is or knows people dealing with mental illness.
- mrneoluddite rated 50 months ago
- From the page: "a place where you can find radical ways of thinking about living with manic depression, and connect with other people who are dealing with the blessing and curse that this "disorder" can be. "
