Ask HN: What books, courses, practices helped your mental health last year?

All the mental health questions/advice: Forget it. Seek a therapist. Depends on your country of course. In Germany, you have the right to see a therapist and your health insurance pays for it.

Don't ask on HN to get bunch of self-help books and apps, always start with the deep work of seeking and working with a therapist for a year.

Re: Ask HN: What books, courses, practices helped your mental health last year?

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Post by greyhound » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 9:55 AM UTC

testrufus wrote: post #7

All the mental health questions/advice: Forget it. Seek a therapist. Depends on your country of course. In Germany, you have the right to see a therapist and your health insurance pays for it. Don't ask on HN to get bunch of self-help books and apps, always start with the deep work of seeking and working with a therapist for a year.

This comment is both dogmatic and doesn't have to do anything with the question.

Are you a StackOverflow frequent?

— "How do I do Foo?"

— "You don't need Foo. Do Bar and Baz."

I don't disagree with your point, but this behavior is just annoying.

Re: Ask HN: What books, courses, practices helped your mental health last year?

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Post by aigoochamna » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 11:16 AM UTC

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Re: Ask HN: What books, courses, practices helped your mental health last year?

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Post by ryanchants » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 12:57 PM UTC

Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, helped me identify some negative patterns around depending on others too much for happiness and working to put myself first.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, overview of how PTSD forms and how to use break the patterns