{"id":1059,"date":"2007-03-23T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/03\/23\/support\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T18:46:47","slug":"support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/03\/23\/support\/","title":{"rendered":"support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from a friend who was starting a MySpace group to try to make an informal network of people to help support each other through more serious physical\/psychological illness.\u00c2\u00a0 A few days ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theicarusproject.net\/\">Icarus Project<\/a>, a grassroots mental health support network, came up in a conversation, and a few months ago, I did a training with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomington.in.us\/~mediate\">Community Justice and Mediation Center<\/a> which provides resources for people in Bloomington to navigate through conflicts that they can&#8217;t work out by themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Lately, it seems like people around me have been struggling with their health in a lot of ways, and connected with this, conflict between each other.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the thing that everybody&#8217;s talking about, but nobody&#8217;s <em>talking<\/em> about.\u00c2\u00a0 I think formal support structures (counseling, therapy, psychiatry, mediation) can be intimidating or may seem inaccessible or can be really disconnected with one&#8217;s experience, but at the same time they can create a space to start dealing in a way that one can&#8217;t create for themselves, or their peers.\u00c2\u00a0 Is there some kind of middle ground, between being on one&#8217;s own and these more formal institutions?\u00c2\u00a0 Also, is there a structured way to support folks who are dealing with things that sit in a grey area between mental health, relationship health, physical health, and more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from a friend who was starting a MySpace group to try to make an informal network of people to help support each other through more serious physical\/psychological illness.\u00c2\u00a0 A few days ago, the Icarus Project, a grassroots mental health support network, came up in a conversation, and a few months ago,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/03\/23\/support\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">support<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloomington","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4wnIz-support","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}