We Need to Talk About Mental Health for Software Developers

Five main risk factors and four fixes

Mariana Vargas
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readMay 11, 2021

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In Stack Overflow’s 2020 Developer Survey — a research project that included participation from over 65K developers — 15% of respondents admitted having some type of mental issue, with anxiety and depression being the most common ones. These results indicate a significant prevalence of mental issues…

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