This is a project for people who identify or have been diagnosed as having a mental illness, a Mad person, or thinking outside what we would think of as a normal way of thinking.
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Join Us In Writing A Love Letter To or From Your ‘Madness’
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Radical Love
This is a collaborative project, where we are trying to find out how to rethink mental illness or madness.
It is revolutionary to think that someone could love being mad (mentally ill). Madness has only been talked about as being a bad thing to have. A diagnosis of abnormality. Here we want to create a different way of talking and thinking about madness.
Madly In Love, we are collecting anonymous love letters to and from someone’s madness. Love letters don’t have to be positive, all feelings are welcome in writing love letters.
Madly In Love is an experiment in radical love, as mad lovers and lovers of the mad. Here is a place where we can stand together as people who honor our madness (mental illness) and the madness of others for all its parts- good and bad.
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WHAT IS MADLY IN LOVE?
Madly In Love is a space to try to hold ourselves and our madness (mental illness) in kindness and empathy.
This is an exercise in being unabashedly in love with yourself as a mad person (someone who has a mental illness/neurodivergent) or loving someone who is Mad.
Madly In Love allows us to put ourselves and our madness center stage. Here is an opportunity to write a love letter to yourself, your madness, or someone you love who is Mad and their madness.
What’s next, watch videos so that we can explain some concepts, and give you some ideas on how to write your letter.