When was the last time you have read a good book that changed your point of view? The human library offers to lend just the right books that raise awareness and change the view on the world. The only difference is that the books from our library are real people! And instead of reading them, we ...
Friends Make the Best Medicine: A Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks http://theicarusproject.net/resources/publications/friends-make-the-best-medicine/ We have briefly outlined a series of ideas to help you gather people together and start exploring all the ingenuity an ...
May is a month of mental health, a type of health often given less importance by people than the physical health. The care of both is equally important and should be implemented for life, from month to month. The association Ludruga, a point for mutual non-official help to people. The article pub ...
Some twenty people facing their own psychiatric diagnoses or diagnoses of their relatives recently meet every Tuesday in the first group of mutual support in Split. Although these groups are not unusual in the world, in Croatia are still a rarity, and the meaning of their existence stems from the fa ...
"Zadar members of Ludruga association from Zagreb this week start the first peer support group." The entire article (in Croatian) can be found here. ...
Within the project "Bibliotherapy / Art Therapy in a Ludruga Way" we have organized an art-poetic-musical evening "Shine on You Crazy Diamond". With an exhibition of paintings of Ivan Kerstner and a reading of poetry written by Rajko Šupe, Tony Pavkovic and Ana Šolc and musical accompaniment on th ...
You feel the fear of the approaching to the psychiatric hospital? You fear from a physical assault from a mentally ill person? You think that mentally ill persons are: - unpredictable - potentially dangerous - strange (tick, scratch, perform strange movements) - aggressive You look at me ...
Decisions on Ludruga acitivities and are made by: the Assembly, Steering Committee, President and Vice President. Sometimes the process looks like an idyllic harmony, and sometimes ... well, democratic. Although we have official legal representatives and assigned functions within the association, ...
Ludruga is an association focused on the upgrading of the mental health within the community. We initiate a dialogue about mental diversity. We bring together people with dense, intense and/or uncommon sensations and states of mind ("mental illnesses"). The participants our activities are people ...
People are adaptable beings and most of them learn to cope with the modern world and its rules. But we are not all the same. Some of us are more sensitive and delicate, with difficulty to accept injustice at all levels, we live our life with an open heart, which often leads to a situation of bein ...
