Over my career in tech, I've found that we don't talk quite enough about mental health and the burden that this environment has on us. After a bad episode of burnout a few years ago, I decided that I needed help and found a therapist - and in 2020, with the start of the pandemic, I've started to collect resources and links that I feel are good to start learning more about this topic.
In this area, Iโm putting general links and resources, divided by area - you donโt need to be a developer or a OSS maintainer to use them ๐ค if you have any suggestions for items to add to these lists, please open an issue or submit a PR.
- There are a lot of channels I would recommend; Iโve put them all in this YouTube playlist.
- debug:mind is a series I make where I talk with fellow developers about mental health and its impact in our lives.
- HealthyGamerGG
- I Weigh
- Brainfork
- Blocks w/ Neal Brennan
- ๐ฎ๐น LeBasi
- ๐ฎ๐น No Pasa Nada
- ๐ฎ๐น Sigmund - suggested by @davidgerva
- No Hard Feelings
- Big Feelings
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
- Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
- World Mental Health Day
- Project Healthy Minds
- Seize The Awkward
- Hearth On My Sleeve
- Mental Health First Aid
- Center for Humane Technology
- All Tech is Human
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England
- Every Mind Matters
- Public mental health England
- The Calm Zone
- Mental Health Foundation
- Hub of Hope
- State of Mind
- Samaritans
- Papyrus UK
- Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide
- SpringHealth
- boysgetsadtoo
- ThriveUK
BetterHelp- yeah actually don't use it, they're pretty bad.
Iโm trying to capture here a series of resources that helped me learn more about these intersections (software engineering + oss) and how it affects mental health.
- Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
- Iโm fucking depressed, but itโs going to be okay.
- Mental Wealth
- Reading in the dark
- Burnout and the Developer
- Give yourself a break: lessons from burnout
- The project that made me burnout
- Reflections on Burnout
- Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source
- What it feels like to be an open-sourceย maintainer
- Open Source Sustainability
- I wonder, why Graydon Hoare, the author of Rust, stopped contributing into it and switched to Swift? (response)
- Mental Health in Open Source
- The Dark Side of Open Source
- Open Source Developers May Start Charging for Help
- Burnout is real โ hereโs how to avoid it
- How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
- Performant Mental Health, The Series
- Workaholism Leads to Mental and Physical Health Problems: Work Addiction Risk Depends on Occupation
- Thereโs a Name for the Blah Youโre Feeling: Itโs Called Languishing (paywall alert)
- 83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds
- What Youโre Getting Wrong About Burnout
- Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
- Finding endless video calls exhausting? Youโre notย alone
- Stop Trying to Be Productive
- Young Adults Report Rising Levels of Anxiety and Depression in Pandemic (paywall alert)
- The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
- Open source has a people problem
- Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
- Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- Increment - Issue #9: Open Source
- Maintaining Balance for Open Source Maintainers - GitHub
- Ask HN: Burning Out
- Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
- Octoverse 2020: spotlight on burnout
- The DEV/Forem Team is Taking a Mental Health Holiday ๐
- Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to
- The social contract of open source
- Preventing burnout: A manager's toolkit
- How I regained concentration and focus
- How to reduce ranked anxiety - using principles from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy(CBT)
- No Maintenance Intended
ideally at some point Iโd like to integrate these lists better into the rest of the page, but itโs a lot of work ๐
- Articles: https://github.com/benstew/awesome-mental-health
- Articles, Books, Talks: https://github.com/megan201296/awesome-mental-health
- Apps, Platforms, Books, Lists, Magazines, Organizations, Treatment Options, Websites: https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/awesome-mentalhealth
- Applications, Articles, Books, Conferences, Meetups, Organizations, Podcasts, Talks: https://github.com/dreamingechoes/awesome-mental-health
- Mental Health Hackersโ resources and links