---
title: "Mental Health and Open Source"
url: "/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast/mental-health-and-open-source"
type: episode
date: 2015-04-10
updated: 2015-04-10
---

# Mental Health and Open Source

#  Mental Health and Open Source 

  

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This week we have a special episode to talk about mental health. This is a hard topic for many people to speak about publicly, so we're lucky to have Addison Berry joined by Mike Bell, Greg Dunlap, and Blake Hall to dive into this subject. Mike recently [gave a presentation](https://mikebell.io/mental-health-and-drupalcamp-london) on this topic at Drupalcamp London. The four of us discuss some of the pressures we feel, ways we try to handle them, ideas for how the community can support help support all of us in good mental health, and some resources to check out. There are a number of resources that were not mentioned in the podcast, but which are listed below if you want to explore more. Please share your own thoughts and resources in the links below.

##  Mentioned in this Episode 

- [  Open Source Mental Illness Help   ](http://osmihelp.org/)
- [  Mike's presentation slides: Mental Health and Open Source   ](http://mikebell.io/mental-health-and-drupalcamp-london)
- [  Greg's Stay for the Community post   ](https://medium.com/@heyrocker/this-article-was-originally-a-keynote-presentation-at-the-pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-in-5e7c7f93131b)
- [  Brian J Brennan: Being Human - JSConf 2014 Video   ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlO2_GecWo8&index=14&list=PL37ZVnwpeshFXOP2lqCUykYPXYNsK_fgN)
- [  Jenn Turner: Lessons in Emotional Safety FTW - JSConf 2014 Video   ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_mgp_VWIe0&index=8&list=PL37ZVnwpeshFXOP2lqCUykYPXYNsK_fgN)
- [  Matthew Bergman: Health Myths We Tell Ourselves in Tech - JSConf2014   ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8jjB5gyV4&index=41&list=PL37ZVnwpeshFXOP2lqCUykYPXYNsK_fgN)
- [  Pacifica: stress management app   ](http://www.thinkpacifica.com/)
- [  Headspace: guided meditation   ](https://www.headspace.com)
- [  Calm: sound and visuals for relaxation   ](http://www.calm.com/)
- [  Introduction to Object-oriented PHP video tutorials   ](https://drupalize.me/series/introduction-object-oriented-php)
- [  Backbone.js and Underscore.js in Drupal 8 article   ](https://drupalize.me/blog/201504/backbonejs-and-underscorejs-drupal-8)
- [  DrupalCon LA Community Summit   ](https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/community-summit)

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