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.

• 🌍 General
  • 📩 Newsletters
  • 📹 YouTube
  • 🎙 Podcasts
  • 📚 Courses
  • ⚙️ Webapps
  • 📲 Mobile apps
  • 📚 Books
  • 📺 TV Shows
  • 🗺 Charities and projects
    • UK 🇬🇧 specific
    • USA 🇺🇸 specific
  • 🗂 Services and companies
    • ITA 🇮🇹 specific
• 💻 Work and doing Open Source
  • 📖 Blogposts
  • 📓 Articles
  • 📚 Books & Guides
  • 🃏 Didn’t fit in the other ones
  • 🗳️ Other collections

🌍 General

In this area, I’m putting general links and resources, divided by area - you don’t need to be a developer or a OSS maintainer to use them 🤗 if you have any suggestions for items to add to these lists, please open an issue or submit a PR.

📩 Newsletters

• Barking at the wrong tree
• Slow Growth
• After Babel

📹 YouTube

• There are a lot of channels I would recommend; I’ve 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.

🎙 Podcasts

• HealthyGamerGG
• I Weigh
• Brainfork
• Blocks w/ Neal Brennan
• 🇮🇹 LeBasi
• 🇮🇹 No Pasa Nada

📚 Courses

• Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health
• Matthew Walker Teaches the Science of Better Sleep

⚙️ Webapps

• Tokimeki Unfollow
• LeechBlock
• Calm Twitter
• Emotion Wheel
  • Activities

📲 Mobile apps

• Headspace
• Oura Ring (needs the hardware)
• one sec
• Medito
• Calm

📚 Books

• 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

📺 TV Shows

• Queer Eye
• Bojack Horseman
• Sex Education
• The Mind, Explained

🗺 Charities and projects

• 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

UK 🇬🇧 specific

• 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

USA 🇺🇸 specific

• Psychology Today
• SAMHSA US
• American Institute for Boys and Men

🗂 Services and companies

• SpringHealth
• boysgetsadtoo
• ThriveUK
• BetterHelp
  • yeah actually don't use it, they're pretty bad.

ITA 🇮🇹 specific

• TeamDifferent
• UnoBravo
• GliPsicologiOnline

💻 Work and doing Open Source

I’m 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.

📖 Blogposts

• Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
• I’m fucking depressed, but it’s 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-source 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

📓 Articles

• Open Source Developers May Start Charging for Help
• Burnout is real – here’s 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
• There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing (paywall alert)
• 83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds
• What You’re Getting Wrong About Burnout
• Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
• Finding endless video calls exhausting? You’re not 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

📚 Books & Guides

• 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

🃏 Didn’t fit in the other ones

• 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 💚
• 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

🗳️ Other collections

ideally at some point I’d like to integrate these lists better into the rest of the page, but it’s a lot of work 😅

• 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 Hackers’ resources and links