​I am currently developing a blueprint for a ‘Digital Guardian’—a system specifically designed to help trauma survivors recognize their patterns and stay grounded in real-time. Your idea for the ‘engine’ that analyzes language would fit perfectly into this mission.
​If you’re still interested in building something meaningful for this space, I’d love to connect and share what I’m working on.

The stress at home, especially with your son, sounds exhausting. Living like that day after day can wear anyone down. You’re not weak, you’re just human, and this is a lot.

Some people use small routines or tools to help them through tough days. For example, CBD + Ashwagandha gummies are designed to support stress relief and promote a more balanced mood. Not a fix, but maybe a gentle support, worth talking to a healthcare professional if you’re curious.

Resources :: Open Sourcing Mental Health - Changing how we talk about mental health in the tech community - Stronger Than Fear is always the broad starting place we send people.

It looks like we need to remove Burnout IO from our resources as it appears that the domain is for sale

Here’s a pretty good recent resource aimed at healthcare workers: Talking About Burnout, Moral Injury and Mental Health at Work: Tips for Healthcare Workers. Their points apply to the tech industry as well. Know your benefits and resources, check in with your colleagues, etc.

Another link is from Physician Assistants’s group, a list of external resources: PA Burnout: External Resources - AAPA

Thank you for your support!

Not a specific service but there’s a directory called Inclusive Therapists that might be a good jumping off point?

Pros for me: I had a wider group of potential therapists to choose from because I wasn’t limited to geography, schedule-wise is great (no commute!), the comforts of home for after a tough session
Cons: Sometimes less direct eye contact or overlapping in conversation can be weird in that way that online convos bring. Also I often wish that I did have more breathing room surrounding it in my schedule.

For those who have experienced burnout or depression due to the demands of our job and sought mental health support online, I’m reaching out for guidance. Given my tight schedule, I’m considering online support options as I don’t have the time to seek traditional therapy in person. Have any of you tried online support services, and if so, could you please share your experiences and perhaps provide recommendations? I’m eager to hear whether online support has been effective for you or if you’ve encountered any drawbacks.

Just sharing more experiences…

Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot

is this anything worthwhile, is there already a project working toward this aim, would any one be open to helping me do something with this idea? I’d love to really invest time in to a worthwhile, for the MH community, project.

What have you tried to make your maintenance experience better (labs, medications, psychiatrist)?

Worked with PHP, Python, C#, etc but every project is near enough a carbon copy of the last: Login pages, product pages, colorpicker, datepicker. I’m bored of it and need some excitement. I’d love to research untapped things that no one has done before. I’ve never been able to replicate the excitement I got from doing my uni dissertations (both of which were in things no one knew much about yet), it was about discovery, research, etc. I get excitement from pen testing but I’d bet with a few reports under my belt I’d get bored of that too

Is there a job which sounds more suited to me than a developer?

Any advice would be good

I left my architecture job one year and a half ago , I certified in a couple of things , enterprise architecture and cloud development . I achieved to enter a company as a mid software developer eleven moths ago which was very hard do to the years i didn’t code and the lack of practice . I feel very proud of returning to develop . In the meanwhile I continued creating the application for kidney failure records . I think right now the data model is quite mature and ready to be implemented through web services , I really think I must accomplish this app which is a promise to my uncle and a motivation to myself .
By the way , some people robbed my house and hit my family I was having troubles of anxiety like 3 months without sleeping do to the fear , this also made me miss behave with my family do to the lack of sleeping exercise and eating habits .
Right now I really fear like anxiety trying to run when I am not able to walk in a development way . Thinking to leave the company to start coding but now I know that maybe is not the way , I think I´ll try to give my best at the company and if things go wrong with my performance ask for some help into the company to see if I can change from client or take a time to improve my coding . Meanwhile I´ll try to continue my app and be proud of my code even if it looks like a very simple app . Keeping the promise to my uncle and create something from scratch is a great motivation to keep going .
The plan is to continue working one more year , read a lot of books , certificate in some things like k8 , networking and security and one year later search for another consultancy company . Stay one year as a senior dev and then persue a FAANG company . Meanwhile finish my app and improve my dev skills .

I’d also like to acknowledge that there’s a lot going on in the world right now to cause feeling a sense of doom. It’s not an out-of-place mood IMO. There’s a lot structurally that will hopefully shift but in the meantime…sometimes the day to day grind is just too much.

Best of luck with your presentations. When I have to present something I try to position myself as someone who is helping others read a map rather than ‘The Expert’. I get less stressed and it’s more collaborative.

I created an account on OSMI recently, after reading your comments on some of the posts, they’re really motivating and I feel like I see an opportunity here, I would really like to talk to you on another platform regarding coding.

I am a student currently and I feel like I am slipping into depression as well and I constantly feel stuck, I was hoping I could talk to you and get some help.

• Having extreme emotions (anxiety) that does not match the severity of a situation.
• Constructing bad outcomes and hyper focusing on them.
• Feeling like people around you were getting through life with less “effort.”

I’ve worked a tech job for all of my formal career - it’s going on 17 years or something close. Work in particular has always been an anxiety catalyst though I have anxiety in general outside of work too (including social anxiety). I came up with the brilliant idea of pushing myself for growth and took a job that (after training/grace period) will have me in front of customers doing technical advisories, demos, and presentations (I work in post-sales engineering) much more so than ever before in my career, where before I would have meetings/presentations much less frequently.

Trying to focus and keep up with information overwhelm is made difficult by anxiety that derives threats from everywhere. I know I can be slower than my peer group to really come anywhere close to mastery over something (however I also sweat details and have empathy for others that is less common in peers… maybe some of those “super powers” Ed talks about).

I have a reasonable boss and I’ve made it into a good company and so in a perverse way I feel even more pressure because of this. I’ve moved on from other companies/jobs that sucked and now that I’m in a good place it’s a really heavy dose of “survival” anxiety - as in, if I don’t make it here, what the heck am I going to do for work? Because hey, why not, my work anxiety also tends to weave into existential anxiety. Even though my job pays me well enough to live and have benefits, I feel that being stuck at a desk with high anxiety is killing me slowly, so it’s a perverse feedback loop that I’m sure many of you will understand. I definitely feel better on weekends when I can get away from a keyboard and engage in manual tasks, projects, using tools and gross motor skills. I can see and feel things being “accomplished” this way, unlike any of the often intangible digital world of knowledge work.

I was glad to get off of meds last year and take a break (meds have typically not done anything notable for me), but now I’m back on it since the ramp-up anxiety is so bad… working toward my first customer interactions.

I’m forcing myself to move forward and figure either I’m going to “survive” this or just fall on my face, but I have to continually ignore the impulse to quit and run away from it. I have never liked working, really. I don’t even know if my tech career is well suited to me. But I had tremendous anxiety in other settings as well, including retail jobs when I was still school aged. Having to face customers and not know what they’re going to ask, and having to “be the expert” has rarely felt comfortable. In the meantime maybe my lottery numbers will hit. I honestly cannot get a sense of whether I’m going to make it in this job or not, it doesn’t feel good - I can only try and see.

I empathize with all of you going through mental health challenges. I hope in my journey I can find the right combination of meds, therapy, techniques that will take more of the edges off of this ridiculous anxiety. Mindfulness meditation helps somewhat.

It’s nice this forum is here, too bad there isn’t more activity. The niche of mental health & tech is a good one, I am sure there are a lot of us with shared experiences.

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Other alternatives are Cardio, zoomba or aerobics. These routines are now easily available on YouTube channels. Also a healthy meal routine is necessary with regular workouts. One must always be hydrated between exercises. So have a lot of water and refreshing juice.

In july 21 I suffered a thrombosis and was not able to ride my bike. After I regained my fitness, I’ve got a severe joint issue in my foot, no biking again. As this was cured, I’ve got something what I would say are heart issues, but nothing was diagnosed yet. So again no biking until next wees long-term ECG shows nothing … 7 month no biking which is the most important outlet for me. The Project I’m working in is beyond stupid, nice people but meeting after meeting to decide nothing, no coding for me anymore, weekly changes in the projects objective. If people do their job without self promotion they get criticised. Kafkaeque insanity … Right now, I’m pissed. I’m no longer depressed, just pissed …