HACKING WITH CARE

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====== Selection of Care Books, Zines, Manuals ======



===== Psychological Well-Being =====

=== ENGLISH ===


==== Manual Of Psychedelic Support ====

  * [[http://psychsitter.com/the-manual-of-psychedelic-support/|Manual of Psychedelic Support]] 

"A comprehensive guide to setting up and running compassionate care services for people having difficult drug experiences at music festivals and similar events. The Manual grew out of the work of its original creators at KosmiCare, the psychedelic care service at the iconic Boom Festival in Portugal. Whilst psychedelic care services have been in operation for decades, and have grown in number and in scope in the past few years, a general guide on how to establish and run them did not exist in the public domain, nor indeed—beyond training manuals for specific organisations—at all. We envisaged a work that would address all aspects of such a project, containing material to guide the care service leader, team leads and carer givers, and those fulfilling vital supporting roles (such as psychiatrists and nurses) through the entire gamut of preparation, training, logistics, operations, and the wrap-up of a care service.”

==== MAPS Psychedelic Harm Reduction ====

  * [[https://www.maps.org/resources/responding_to_difficult_psychedelic_experiences/|MAPS Psychedelic Harm Reduction]] Mutidisciplinary Association for Psychdelic Studies (MAPS)

"With proper preparation and understanding, it is possible to help a person having a difficult experience to receive the most benefit from it. Difficult psychedelic experiences can be frightening, but also among the most valuable experiences someone can have. Difficult psychedelic experiences can be the result of external factors, such as a chaotic environment or traumatic events, or the result of painful or troubling emotions that arise during the experience."

==== Friends Make the Best Medicine (IP) ====

  * [[http://www.theicarusproject.net/icarus-downloads/friends-make-the-best-medicine|Friends Make the Best Medicine]], The Icarus Project

"Download the color cover 2013 edition of our long-awaited Support Manual, titled Friends Make the Best Medicine: A Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks. This Icarus guide for community support around madness and mental health is a work in progress. We thank all the dangerous and brilliant mad ones, the website members, writers, visionaries artists, activists, organizers, healers, and other Icarus co-conspirators who have collaborated."

==== Harm Reduction Guide to coming off psychiatrc drugs and withdrawal (IP) ====

  * [[http://www.theicarusproject.net/HarmReductionGuideComingOffPsychDrugs|Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs and Withdrawal]], The Icarus Project

"The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's 52-page illustrated guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Based in more than 10 years work in the peer support movement, this Guide is used internationally by individuals, families, professionals, and organizations, and is available a growing number of translations. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, psychiatric drug withdrawal, information for people staying on their medications, detailed Resource section, and much more. A 'harm reduction' approach means not being pro- or anti- medication, but supporting people where they are at to make their own decisions, balancing the risks and benefits involved. Written by Will Hall, with a 55-member health professional Advisory Board providing research assistance and more than 50 collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Jacks McNamara. Now in a revised and expanded Second Edition."

==== Navigating Crisis (IP) ====

  * [[http://www.theicarusproject.net/files/IcarusNavigatingCrisisHandoutLarge05-09.pdf|Navigating Crisis]], The Icarus Project

" When you or someone close to you goes into crisis, it can be the scariest thing to ever happen. You don’t know what to do, but it seems like someone’s life might be at stake or they might get locked up, and everyone around is getting stressed and panicked. Most people have either been there themselves or know a friend who has been there. Someone’s personality starts to make strange changes, they’re not sleeping or sleeping all day, they lose touch with the people around them, they disappear into their room for days, they have wild energy and outlandish plans, they start to dwell on suicide and hopelessness, they stop eating or taking care of themselves, or they start taking risks and being reckless. They become a different person. They’re in crisis.

The word “crisis” comes from a root meaning “judgment.” A crisis is a moment of great tension and meeting the unknown. It’s a turning point when things can’t go on the way they have, and the situation isn’t going to hold. Could crisis be an opportunity for breakthrough, not just breakdown? Can we learn about each other and ourselves as a community through crisis? Can we see crisis as an opportunity to judge a situation and ourselves carefully, not just react with panic and confusion or turn things over to the authorities? ”

==== Mental Health First Aid Guidelines (MHFA Australia) ====

  * [[https://mhfa.com.au/resources/mental-health-first-aid-guidelines|Mental Health First Aid Guidelines]] MHFA Australia

"In order to improve the quality of the mental health first aid techniques being taught to the public, MHFA Australia and researchers in the Mental Health Literacy Research Team lead by Professor Tony Jorm (now the Population Mental Health Group at the University of Melbourne) have developed guidelines on what constitutes best practice first aid, as informed by expert consensus (i.e., consensus-based guidelines)"
 

===== Radical Self-care / Care in context of Activism =====

=== ENGLISH ===

==== Self as other - Reconsidering Self-Care (CrimethInc) ====

  * [[http://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/pdfs/self-as-other_for-screen.pdf|SELF AS OTHER - Reconsidering self-care]] CrimethInc

"Following up our feature “For All We Care” analyzing the contradictory currents within the category of care, we present “Self as Other: Reconsidering Self-Care.” This zine combines that text with three more essays in which individuals recount their personal struggles with the concept and practice of care. Please print and photocopy these to share with anyone who is confronting the same issues!”

==== Activist's Guide to Basic First Aid (BCC) ====

  * [[http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/attachments/File/viewzine.pdf|Activist's Guide To Basic First Aid]] Black Cross Collective 

"Black Cross Health Collective is an affinity group of health care workers who live in Portland, Oregon. We formed after the WTO protests because we saw a need for medical care that is specific to the radical community. We think our needs as radicals are different, and that groups like the Red Cross don’t give us the skills we need to keep ourselves and each other safe in the streets. So we called upon our own medical experience (as nurse practioners, nurses, EMT’s, clinical herbalists, and more), as well as our experience in demos and direct actions, and formed Black Cross. Since then, we’ve done first aid trainings in Portland and around the country, provided medical support at local and national demos, and are conducting trials looking for a way to neutralize pepper spray.
We believe that health care is political. The kind of care we do or don’t receive, where and how we receive that care, who provides that care, who has access to training to provide care, and what kinds of trainings are smiled or frowned upon, all involve inherently political issues. We believe the system needs to be changed… the health care system right along with all the others.
We’ve put this zine together mostly to go along with a first aid training. While doing the trainings we realized there was way more to say about first aid than we would have time to say it in. So we thought a little reading would maybe be helpful to y’all."

=== FRANÇAIS ===

==== Kit d'Auto-défense Juridique et Médicale (PL) ====

  * [[http://paris-luttes.info/chroot/mediaslibres/ml-paris/ml-paris/public_html/IMG/pdf/kit_juridique.pdf|Kit d'Auto-Defense Juridique et Médicale]] Paris Luttes 

===== Physical Well-Being / Health =====

=== ENGLISH ===

==== Where There Is No Doctor / Donde No Hay Doctor ====

  * [[http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/|Where There is No Doctor and more]] Hesperian Health Guides - Available in multiple langages 

"The most widely-used health care manual for health workers, educators, and others involved in primary health care and health promotion around the world. Current edition includes updated information on malaria, HIV, and more."

"Hesperian Health Guides publishes 20 titles, spanning women’s health, children, disabilities, dentistry, health education, HIV, and environmental health. From this page, you can buy, download, or read health materials in English. View Resources by Language to explore materials in Spanish and other languages."

==== Dangers of Sleep Deprivation ====

  * The Dangers of Sleep Deprivation Infographic 

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==== Health Hazards Of Sitting ====

  * [[http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/the-health-hazards-of-sitting/750/|Health Hazards of Sitting]] Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post 

 
=== FRANÇAIS ===

  * [[http://www.comede.org/modeles-de-lettres-d|Guide soins et accompagnement aux migrants - étrangers en situation précaire]] Comité Médical pour les Exilés, 2013