About
:sparkles: A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources
about mental health in the software industry. :sparkles:
Mental health is a level of psychological
well-being or an absence of mental illness.
It’s the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a
satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment.
It includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy,
competence, inter-generational dependence, and self-actualization of
one’s intellectual and emotional potential, among others.
This list compiles several self-help resources we’ve personally found
useful for a range of mental health problems, but in no way are they a
replacement of professional help, psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy.
We’re not experts, and even if we were, most of these
tools are meant as an aid to therapy, not as a substitute.
If you’re in a crisis, please see here,
or here
for resources in your country.
Contents
Applications
Applications to help with dealing with anxiety, depression or other
mental health problems.
- Moodpath - Interactive,
app-based screening, created to recognize symptoms of depression.
- Nyxo – Open source sleep tracking and
sleep coaching app for iOS and Android.
- Sanvello - Daily tools for
stress, anxiety, and depression alongside a supportive community. Based
on cognitive behavioral therapy & mindfulness meditation.
- Quirk - A GPL Licensed
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) app for iOS and Android.
- Three Good Things
- Write down three good things in your life every morning.
- Wake Up Time - Calculates optimal
times to wake up based on your body’s sleep cycles.
- we are ANXIO.us - A collection of
mental health and wellness apps, plus resources.
- Wrabit - Build a daily
writing habit while contributing to mental health research.
Articles
Articles, posts and papers on mental health in technology.
- A
Programmers Guide To Stress - By Daragh Byrne.
- Are
You More Than Okay: The State Of Mental Health In Tech In 2016 - By
Julia Nguyen.
- Beating
Burnout: A Guide For Supporting Mental Health At Work - By Almanac
Core.
- Coding,
Fast And Slow: Developers And The Psychology Of Overconfidence - By
Dan Milstein.
- Depression
At Work Is Skyrocketing, But It Doesn’t Have To Be Your New Normal -
By Bev Campling.
- Developer
Depression: Isolation Is The Biggest Problem - By Lauren
Maffeo.
- Developers:
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome - By Abhishek Pillai.
- Do Not
Disturb - By Joe Bell.
- Encouraging
Wellness in a Remote Workpalce - By Desi Rottman.
- For
The Developers With Anxiety, And Everyone Else - By Daine
Mawer.
- How I
Beat Impostor Syndrome And Stopped Feeling Like A Fake - By Daragh
Byrne.
- How
I Conquered Anxiety And Learned To LOVE Coding - By Joyce
Akiko.
- How
I Fought Through Anxiety And Depression To Finish freeCodeCamp’s Front
End Dev Program - By Emily Aamodt.
- How
To Keep Your Mental Health In Check When You Work From Home - By
WeWorkRemotely.
- How
To Move Your Organization From Fear To Fearlessness - By Gustavo
Razzetti.
- How
To Prevent Or Recover From Developer Burnout - By Anastasia.
- Hunting
For A Web Developer Job… With Crushing Anxiety And No Self-Esteem -
By James Lave.
- I
Can’t Do It All: My Burnout Story - By Molly Struve.
- Intro To
Meditation For Coders - By Abe Dolinger.
- It’s Okay To
Not Be Okay - By Andrew Montagne.
- It’s
Time To Talk About Mental Health In The Games Industry - By Rich
Eddy.
- It’s
Time To Talk About Mental Illness In Indie Development - By Jessica
Conditt.
- Mental
Self Care For Software Developers And Web Designers - By B.J.
Keeton.
- Mental
Illness In The Web Industry - By Brandon Gregory.
- My
Mental Health Toolbelt - By Taylor Otwell.
- On
Dealing With Anxiety And Depression As A Developer - By Michael
Scott Hertzberg.
- Overcoming
Public Speaking Anxiety Of Software Engineers Using Virtual Reality
Exposure Therapy - By Merve Denizci Nazligul, Murat Yilmaz, Ulas
Gulec, Mert Ali Gozcu, Rory V. O’Connor & Paul Clarke.
- Perfectionism,
Anxiety And Learning To Be Kind To Yourself - By Jo Franchetti.
- Programmer
Imposter Syndrome: 6 Ways To Get Over Yours - By Ethan Urie.
- Recovering From Burnout
- By Kieran Tie.
- Software
Developer Careers Considered Harmful - By Christian Grobmeier.
- Sorry,
Not Sorry - How To Advocate For Your Mental Health At Work - By
Jessica DiVento.
- Taming
Anxiety And Hacking Your Way Into Productivity - By André Pena.
- The
Programmer’s Great Clinical Depression - By Jason Lowenthal.
- Tips
For Dealing With Developer Stress - By Rich McLaughlin.
- Tips
To Maintain Your Mental Health As A Software Developer - By Steven
To.
- We
Need To Talk About Developers And Depression - By Greg Baugues.
- What
Happens When Software Developers Are (un)Happy - By Daniel
Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang & Pekka
Abrahamssone.
- What
It’s Like Being A Developer With Schizoaffective Disorder - By
Fris.
- What
Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work - By Amir
Salihefendic.
- Why Burnout Is
Dangerous And How You Can Recover From It (It’s Possible) - By
Theodora S. Abigail.
- Why
Do Software Developers Suffer From Imposter Syndrome? - By Muhammed
Rajeef M K.
Books
Books that has mental health and self-care as the main theme.
Conferences
Conferences spreading the word of the importance of mental health
awareness and self-care in the software industry.
- Computing And Mental
Health - Bringing together communities.
- Anxiety Tech - Learn how to
advocate for mental health at work, how technology can be better
designed to support mental health, what technologies are already working
to help those who suffer with mental illnesses, and how you or your
company can be leaders in this field.
Meetups
Meetup groups all around the world focusing on mental health in the
software industry.
Organizations
Organizations bringing mental health awareness to the software
industry.
- Black Minds Matter - A
non-profit organisation that aims to empower communities of Black people
aged 13- 25, and wants to make more equal and just society for all.
- Black Therapists
Rock - Black Therapists Rock (BTR) is an organization committed to
increasing awareness of social and psychological challenges impacting
vulnerable communities.
- The Black, African, and Asian
Therapy Network - The UK’s largest independent organisation to
specialise in working psychologically, informed by an understanding of
intersectionality, with people who identify as Black, African, South
Asian and Caribbean.
- Brown Sisters
Speak - Mental Health Peer Support & Advocacy for Women Of
Color.
- Compassionate Coding -
Compassionate Coding combines the effective practices of agile software
development with a focus on empathy and the latest in positive
organizational psychology.
- Everybody Has A Brain -
Everybody Has A Brain is about creating opportunities for dialogue
around personal mental health.
- Hack Mental Health -
The intersection of mental health and technology.
- IfMe - Community for mental
health experiences that encourages people to share their personal
stories with trusted allies.
- Mental Health Hackers
- An Organization that aims at providing support services to those who
may be susceptible to related mental health issues such as anxiety,
depression, social isolation, eating disorders, etc.
- Mental Health Knowledge
Base - GitHub-based project and website that encourages a diversity
of views regarding mental health.
- MHPrompt - Let’s start a
conversation about mental health in tech.
- OSMI - Open Sourcing Mental
Illness is a non-profit, corporation dedicated to raising awareness,
educating, and providing resources to support mental wellness in the
tech and open source communities.
- SelfCare.Tech - A repository of
self-care resources for developers & others.
Podcasts
Podcast episodes with «mental health awareness in the software
industry» as the main theme.
Talks
Talks and presentations about mental health awareness and other
testimonies and experiences in the software industry.
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING
for more details on how to suggest awesome resources or other
modifications to the list. You can also find an alphabetically-ordered
list of contributors of this repository here.
All contributors are expected to adhere to the Code
of Conduct of the project. (Contributor Covenant)
This project was started by dreamingechoes.