Hello there. Welcome to this little space. This is my archive of things I find pretty cool in the world of mutual aid, and most specifically mental health care.
Here you’ll find everything I find interesting in those topics. I also generally try to archive the texts in plain text format in order to make them more accessible and more permanent (many websites only use scanned PDFs and many are no longer up unfortunately). However it’s not because a resource was lost, that it has lost any of its value.
This website is there to make them stay.
Check the upcoming resources in advance
You can check out the idea page to see all the upcoming resources and archives. They aren’t in any specific format, I simply use that page as a way to dump all the ideas in one place whenever I find something interesting.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any idea that might make this website better (translations, archive, new links, new categories, aesthetics, accessibility, broken link, anything that comes to your mind).
If you wanna check out the new archived pages hosted here, you can check out the list of new pages.
🚨 Crisis Resources & Suicide Prevention
- Navigating Crisis by The Icarus Project is a resource to help yourself navigate a crisis or support others through a crisis
- Helping your friends who sometimes wanna die, maybe not die., a wonderful text on how to support friends in crisis situations and in general while not forgetting ourselves. Available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. On that page, there is also a bunch of very interesting resources, some of them are also listed here.
- You feel like shit., an interactive website to guide you through self care when you are feeling down.
- A new design of the same website is available at youfeellikeshit.com
- Practicing self-care, step-by-step is a simple flowchart made by the Trevor Project (an association to help LGBTQ youth) to guide you through self care when you’re feeling overwhelmed
- Breathing exercice is a guided breathing exercise made by the Trevor Project
đź“‹ Crisis Plan
A crisis plan is a plan made before a crisis to help you (and your trusted friends) navigate a crisis. It is a sort of map to follow to take care of yourself when you’re in an emotional state where everything is dark and it’s hard to take decisions.
- Mapping Our Madness, a workbook for navigating crisis, extreme states, or just foul moods.
- Tips on writing a Crisis Support Plan, how we can help each other during a mental health crisis
- T-MAP Crisis Plan, another workbook for creating a crisis plan, part of the T-MAPs project built within The Icarus Project
đź’¬ Compassionate Communication
Compassionate communication, more commonly known as Nonviolent Communication is a sort of process to help you better communicate with yourself and others, support others, resolve conflicts, express gratitude, create more healthy relationships and many more.
- Finding peace, clarity and win-win is an interactive journal used to gain more clarity and peace while also learning nonviolent communication.
- ZeNVC’s handouts are tools to use for practicing NVC, such as writing a journal, doing an empathy call with someone, and simply understanding some basics of this form of communication better.
- NVC San Francisco Workshop is a 3 hours long, complete view of compassionate communication, it pretty much covers everything there is in the book introducing the idea (Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life)
đź’ž Relationships and community
- Relationship Anarchist Guide is a website that gathers interesting information about relationship anarchy and other resources to expore further
- Consent, the right FIRES is a pretty good and clear explanation of consent. Very much applicable in any situation that includes an interaction with a fellow entity at any point (not just sex)
- Relationship RADAR is a process to regularly check up on relationships to avoid having unsaid things piling up and eventually destroying the relationship. A sort of safeguard to ensure the relationship stays healthy and beneficial for everyone involved. It also includes useful communication tools in general.
- Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet is a way to “map” your relationships and support network in order to better understand it and develop it. Initially made in the context of transformative justice, I think it could actually be applied much more widely.
🍲 Food
- The Sad Bastard Cookbook, a cookbook made to specifically be easy and low energy recipes to help you when you’re struggling (chronic illness, depression, etc). Also the majority of recipes are vegan btw.
- One thing really cool with it is that each recipe has tips to upgrade depending on your level of energy. Also it offers ideas of meal plans and base shopping lists. Honestly I can’t recommend this cookbook enough
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans resources
The Gender Dysphoria Bible explains what gender dysphoria is, what gender is, and gives different information with dealing with gender dysphoria and transitioning.- I encourage you to take this with a grain of salt though. This document has been accused of flirting with transmedicalism at times which is why it has been banned from the subreddit r/egg_irl. You can find more details about that in this egg_irl post
General anti-psychiatric resources
- An antipsychiatry FAQ answers many questions surrounding the themes of antipsychiatry
- Une traduction en français de la FAQ antipsy est également disponible.
- Archive of the “zinzinzine” website, zinzinzine used to be a major French resource for anti-psychiatric news, activism and practical tools. Many of the links you find here come from that website. If you’re looking specifically for practical information, check out their toolbox.
- Fireweed Collective’s Crisis Resources, also another major source of anti-psychiatric resources. This used to be called The Icarus Project.
- Friends make the best medicine, a zine by The Icarus Project explaining how to create a peer-support anti-pryshicatric group.
- T-MAPs - Transformative Mutual Aid Practices is a collection of tools to build a personal map of wellness strategies, resilience practices, unique stories and community resources.
General mental wellbeing/health related things
- Adventures With Anxiety! is a pretty fun game about anxiety made by Nicky Case
- Mental Health Tips feat. Anxiety Wolf is a list of resources and tips about mental health, made by Nicky Case to go with the game Adventures With Anxiety! stated earlier.