Your manager influences your mental health more than your therapist. Learn how to recognize truly supportive leadership, leverage that support effectively, and protect yourself when your manager isn’t helping your mental wellbeing.
Category: Software Engineering
Finding Your Tech Tribe: Online and Offline Communities for Developer Mental Health
You’re not the only developer struggling at 2 AM. Find your tech tribe in online and offline communities where developers openly discuss mental health, share strategies, and support each other through the unique challenges of working in tech.
Medication and Coding: The Real Talk About Psychiatric Meds and Performance
The honest conversation about psychiatric medication and coding performance. Breaking the stigma around ADHD meds, antidepressants, and anxiety medication for developers who worry medication will affect their work.
Therapy for Developers: Finding a Therapist Who Actually Gets Tech
Finding the right therapist as a developer means finding someone who understands tech culture, imposter syndrome, and the unique mental health challenges of working in technology. Here’s your practical guide to the search process.
Building a Mental Health Support Network: Finding Your People in Tech
Building a mental health support network as a developer isn’t optional—it’s survival. Learn how to create multiple layers of support, find your tech community, and break free from the isolation that makes tech work so mentally challenging.
When Your Partner Doesn’t Get Tech Stress: Building Bridges Across the Digital Divide
When your partner doesn’t understand tech stress, the communication gap can strain your relationship. Learn practical strategies to bridge the digital divide and build mutual understanding between tech and non-tech partners.
Letter to My Younger Self: You Don’t Have to Work Nights and Weekends
It’s Friday at 5 PM. Everyone’s logging off. But you’re already planning to work tonight. Maybe tomorrow too. I need to tell you something that sounds impossible: You don’t have to work nights and weekends. Not to succeed. You just don’t.
Letter to My Younger Self: It’s Okay to Say No
Tomorrow your manager will ask if you can take on one more thing. You’ll say yes. Because you always say yes. Because no feels like letting people down. I need to tell you: It’s okay to say no. Sometimes it’s the only thing that will save you.
Letter to My Younger Self: You’re Not a Fraud
You just got the job offer. Instead of celebrating, you’re terrified. Convinced they made a mistake. That you’ll be exposed as a fraud within days. I need you to hear this: You’re not a fraud. You never were.
Letter to My Younger Self: About Burnout I Didn’t See Coming
Hey younger me – you think burnout won’t happen to you. You’re 25, energetic, passionate. You can work 12-hour days easily. I need to tell you something: you’re wrong. And I wish someone had warned me.
