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If you wrote a book called "Mental Health for Engineers" I'd read it. You are very good at articulating the subjective experience.

by cnity 1y ago

taneq 1y ago
Ooh, something in the same spirit as The Hacker's Diet (How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition)[1] which I legitimately used (well, kinda did some of) to lose about 20kg over the space of ~2 years, and then keep it off semi-indefinitely (I started in ~2010 and kept pretty steady since then, I've had a couple of times where I got up about 5kg from my target but it's not too hard to fix at that point.) [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
jimkleiber 1y ago
There was someone that framed it like "Emotional API" but I can't remember who the guy was, and searching that on the internet now brings up a lot of AI stuff. Your post inspires me to think of how to package some of my work of emotional conflict and health for engineers. If you're curious to talk more about it, I'd love to chat here or you can send me an email to the address in my bio.
- jimkleiber 1y ago
  I should have just typed it into the address bar, lol: https://emotionalapi.com/ https://emotionalapi.com/
ants_everywhere 1y ago
That's a good idea for a book and the parent commenter may indeed be a good person to write it, but subject experience is known to be a terrible source of information about psychology and mental health.
zczc 1y ago
The text https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression is in this vein.
MobileVet 1y ago
Wow, thank you, that is very kind. Something my wife and I decided very on in our journey into the space was to be as open as possible about it; both to help with distigmatjzation as well as just general knowledge sharing. I certainly knew nothing about mental health and illness until severe mental illness arrived on our doorstep and we had to get educated fast. With 5% of the US population suffering from severe mental illness and another 20% having experienced an acute or less significant issue, it is quite common. The more we know, the more we can be helpful to those around us or ourselves. I gave a 'co-learning' presentation on mental health to our company... maybe I should consider expanding the scope of my shared experience. Thanks for your encouragement.

If you wrote a book called "Mental Health for Engineers" I'd read it. You are very good at articulating the subjective experience.

by cnity 1y ago

If you wrote a book called "Mental Health for Engineers" I'd read it. You are very good at articulating the subjective experience.

taneq 1y ago

Ooh, something in the same spirit as The Hacker's Diet (How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition)[1] which I legitimately used (well, kinda did some of) to lose about 20kg over the space of ~2 years, and then keep it off semi-indefinitely (I started in ~2010 and kept pretty steady since then, I've had a couple of times where I got up about 5kg from my target but it's not too hard to fix at that point.) [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

jimkleiber 1y ago

There was someone that framed it like "Emotional API" but I can't remember who the guy was, and searching that on the internet now brings up a lot of AI stuff. Your post inspires me to think of how to package some of my work of emotional conflict and health for engineers. If you're curious to talk more about it, I'd love to chat here or you can send me an email to the address in my bio.

jimkleiber 1y ago
I should have just typed it into the address bar, lol: https://emotionalapi.com/ https://emotionalapi.com/

ants_everywhere 1y ago

That's a good idea for a book and the parent commenter may indeed be a good person to write it, but subject experience is known to be a terrible source of information about psychology and mental health.

zczc 1y ago

The text https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression is in this vein.

MobileVet 1y ago

Wow, thank you, that is very kind. Something my wife and I decided very on in our journey into the space was to be as open as possible about it; both to help with distigmatjzation as well as just general knowledge sharing. I certainly knew nothing about mental health and illness until severe mental illness arrived on our doorstep and we had to get educated fast. With 5% of the US population suffering from severe mental illness and another 20% having experienced an acute or less significant issue, it is quite common. The more we know, the more we can be helpful to those around us or ourselves. I gave a 'co-learning' presentation on mental health to our company... maybe I should consider expanding the scope of my shared experience. Thanks for your encouragement.