--- title: 3 Tips to Improve Your Mental Health as a Developer description: Sam Walpole is a fullstack .NET and JavaScript web developer. He has been struggling with low mood for the past month. He shares his tips on how to improve... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/3-tips-to-improve-your-mental-health-as-a-developer-mn-02cwyw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 3 Tips to Improve Your Mental Health as a Developer | daily.dev og:description: Sam Walpole is a fullstack .NET and JavaScript web developer. He has been struggling with low mood for the past month. He shares his tips on how to improve... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/3-tips-to-improve-your-mental-health-as-a-developer-mn-02cwyw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mN-02cWYW.png og:image:alt: 3 Tips to Improve Your Mental Health as a Developer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 3 Tips to Improve Your Mental Health as a Developer **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 3 min read · 85 upvotes · 13 comments ## Summary Sam Walpole is a fullstack .NET and JavaScript web developer. He has been struggling with low mood for the past month. He shares his tips on how to improve your mental health as a developer. The only meaningful measure of success is against yourself, so don't compare yourself to others. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@xasanvaliyev** · 6 upvotes > Very good post. I agree with you dear friend **@abbosf** · 5 upvotes > Perfecto !!! > Also, I suggest reading Deep work by Cal Newport. **@jeremy955** · 5 upvotes > "Legen" - wait for it - "dary". LEGENDARY! **@fegomson** · 3 upvotes > Your mental health is more important than that job **@kientran** · 3 upvotes > It is helpful! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/3-tips-to-improve-your-mental-health-as-a-developer-mn-02cwyw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"3 Tips to Improve Your Mental Health as a Developer","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/3-tips-to-improve-your-mental-health-as-a-developer-mn-02cwyw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/3-tips-to-improve-your-mental-health-as-a-developer-mn-02cwyw"},"datePublished":"2021-06-17T02:55:48.536Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Sam Walpole is a fullstack .NET and JavaScript web developer. 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