Inner Compass Stories
What's your story?


You’ll find here the stories of people with firsthand experience of the mental health industry—accounts of harm and hope, breakdown and breakthrough, and above all, the power of our own stories to challenge and rewrite the scripts we’ve been given.
Inner Compass Initiative Stories honor and amplify the voices of those with firsthand experience of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, because our stories are too powerful, vital, and varied to be told by anyone else. As you read you’ll discover insight and expertise in the truest sense (from the Latin experitus: “tried, proved, known by experience”), as well as new and hopeful ways to approach the future. Here’s how ICI Stories can do that for you…