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Mental health matters! Break the stigma. We can empower ourselves and each other to invest in our mental health. We can give support and care to ourselves and each other while we struggle. Let's talk about making our mental health priority.

about #mentalhealth

Posts should be related to mental health. This is a pretty wide category but some things that are included are:

Managing mental health as a developer
Living with mental illness and how it affects your work
Ways to cope with mental health issues
Avoiding burn out
Tools, apps, and methods that help you with your mental health
...and more

“Your mental health is a priority. Your happiness is an essential. Your self-care is a necessity.”

Struggling? Help is out there. Click here to find a list of global mental health resources and hotlines.

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Mar 4

Is It Just Me, or Is "Dev Anxiety" Hitting Different Lately?

#ai #mentalhealth #career #webdev

2 min read

anirudh

Jan 27

Developers: Do you skip meals, forget breaks, or code until 2am? [3-min health survey]

#discuss #developers #mentalhealth #productivity

1 min read

Mar 2

Alert Fatigue is Breaking DevOps: Here is the Math

#devops #sre #mentalhealth #observability

2 min read

Lisa Girlinghouse

Feb 28

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community (dev.to in Bing)

#showdev #community #devchallenge #mentalhealth

2 min read

lumacare-therapy

Jan 26

A Burnout Tracker Because Spreadsheets Were Killing Me

#javascript #webdev #beginners #mentalhealth

1 min read

anicca

Feb 28

How to Build Emergency Mental Health Detection in AI Agents

#ai #mentalhealth #crisisdetection #automation

3 min read

Aryan Choudhary

Feb 4

Why do you write?

#discuss #programming #learning #mentalhealth

3 min read

Stéphane

Jan 24

From Med School to SaaS: How I Got Lost in Toxic Ambition ... and Found My Way Back

#career #devjournal #mentalhealth #saas

6 min read

Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge

Inna Campo

Feb 27

When Doctors Are Too Tired to Think Slow: Building CLARA with Gemini 3.1 Pro

#devchallenge #geminireflections #gemini #mentalhealth

6 min read

Jan 23

Why “If I Can, I’d Like to Do It” Quietly Turns into “I Have to Do It”

#discuss #mentalhealth #motivation #productivity

4 min read

yuer

Jan 23

When Emotion Becomes an Interrupt:How Distress-Framed Language Systematically Suppresses Reasoning in General-Purpose LLMs

#ai #computerscience #llm #mentalhealth

5 min read

Jan 29

Unpopular Opinion: I stopped coding on weekends and my career got better.

#discuss #career #productivity #mentalhealth

2 min read

JSGuruJobs

Jan 22

Burnout Prevention as Code: Systems That Keep Developers Alive for 20+ Years

#career #mentalhealth #productivity #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Daniil Kornilov

Feb 25

I Burned Out as a Developer at 19. Here's How I Came Back.

#career #mentalhealth #beginners #motivation

8 min read

Jan 21

The One-Hour Habit That Quietly Fixed My Focus as a Software Developer

#productivity #selfimprovement #mentalhealth #motivation

7 min read

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