--- title: The Importance of a Developer's Mental Day | daily.dev description: A moment of reflection dear dev, dear engineer, and dear LANister. A brief reminder that yes, we are here, and yes we are alive. We made it to this day! What a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-importance-of-a-developer-s-mental-day--910rq-h2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Importance of a Developer's Mental Day | daily.dev og:description: A moment of reflection dear dev, dear engineer, and dear LANister. A brief reminder that yes, we are here, and yes we are alive. We made it to this day! What a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-importance-of-a-developer-s-mental-day--910rq-h2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/_910RQ-H2.png og:image:alt: The Importance of a Developer's Mental Day 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. # The Importance of a Developer's Mental Day **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 15 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A moment of reflection dear dev, dear engineer, and dear LANister. A brief reminder that yes, we are here, and yes we are alive. We made it to this day! What a joy! Ohh, hey Kelvin! Let's talk about our mental health today. A little sanity in all the chaos of whatever bugs, errors, and painful hours we might have had to this moment. ## 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. **@sharansharma19** · 1 upvotes > life balance is important than just staring at code. --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-importance-of-a-developer-s-mental-day--910rq-h2) ```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":"The Importance of a Developer's Mental Day","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-importance-of-a-developer-s-mental-day--910rq-h2","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-importance-of-a-developer-s-mental-day--910rq-h2"},"datePublished":"2020-11-15T05:14:19.190Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"A moment of reflection dear dev, dear engineer, and dear LANister. 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