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✨ A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources about mental health in the software industry. ✨

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.

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.

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

Contributor Covenant

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.