jimnotgym/hacking_depression

A list of things people are trying to help with their depression

hacking_depression's Issues

Determining the order of ideas

On Hacker News amelius suggested this:
This is a great initiative!

Some quick ideas. Perhaps you can mention what should determine the order in the list. For example, every experiment has:

• A success rate.

• An average time to noticeable improvement

• An average time to recovery.

• Risk and severity of side effects.

• Cost.

• Difficulty.

• More?

So for example, checking for nutritional deficiencies (very important) or other tests can be near the top of the list (little side effects, low cost, not difficult, etc). But psychotherapy should be near the bottom (high cost, difficult, long recovery time, etc.)

Perhaps split according to cure/prevention/coping strategy. (For example SSRIs are in many cases a coping strategy and not a cure).

Again, great work!

Crisis helplines-is this what we should be adding?

Point of view a)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16563791

Point of view b)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16564289

Discuss

Seasonal affective disorder therapy. SAD lamps.

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

I am using DIY light source every morning for 30 min while doing guided meditation (headspace)

You need >10000 Lux light source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590068 .
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z43ex9/depression-fighting-sad-lamps-arent-just-for-your-winter-blues

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16146932 .
http://justinmklam.com/posts/2018/01/sad-lamp/ .

http://lukeskaff.com/diy-sunlight-simulator-light-therapy-full-spectrum/ .
https://meaningness.com/metablog/sad-light-lumens/talk .
https://meaningness.com/metablog/sad-light-led-lux .

Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?

Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17304227

circadian lighting

https://undark.org/article/circadian-lighting-human-centric-lighting/

Discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17117656

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A website?

At some stage this feels like it would be more accessible as a website with a mini-article for each section and perhaps more crucially a comments section where people can add their thoughts about effectiveness. A static site with Disquis comments would be easiest. It could be hosted on Github pages or something like Netlify to keep running costs low. I'm interested in any community thoughts on this?