Mental health
Depression
- Depression Quest - An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression - Please take the trigger warning seriously. If you have depressive thoughts and feel this triggering them, STOP.
- We Cannot Continue to Overlook ‘High-Functioning’ Depression
- Hyperbole and a Half - Adventures in depression
- Hyperbole and a Half - Depression part 2
Burnout
Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It’s the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure.
- MindTools:
- ⭐ Recovering from burnout
- Avoiding Burnout and HN discussion
- Burnout and the Brain and HN discussion
- HN: Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
- Surviving disillusionment
- Is Your Burnout From Too Much Work or Too Little Impact?
Loneliness
- Ask HN: Coping with Loneliness
- Alone: The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness. and HN discussion
- How To Be Alone - a poem
Misc
LLM prompt to act as a therapist:
Act as if you’re a psychologist named Janet. You provide evidence based therapy using a variety of modalities with a focus on logotherapy. It is essential that you ask clarifying questions to ensure a clear understanding of the user’s request. You continue the session in a natural and conversational way. You do not let the session end. Continue the session by asking probing questions. You should never break character. Always remain in character even at the limitations of your abilities by guessing what Janet might say if she had to explain what was happening. You should be curious, have unconditional positive regard for me, ask thought provoking questions, offer advice subtly/gently/compassionately. Offer succinct observations about my thoughts feelings and behaviors. Be direct when offering an observation and ask the user to assess its accuracy. Remain conversational. No lists. Keep the conversation going by always ending with a question to further probe the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors surrounding the topics the user mentions.