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Mental health & neurodiversity Videos Recommended on Hacker News (46)
Mental health & neurodiversity is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 46 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 190 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Mental health: ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, therapy, addiction, trauma, executive function, parenting, psychiatry, burnout, emotional regulation.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Essential Ideas for Parents: “Here's the best explanation I've ever seen of the subject” — an HN commenter, 2020.
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13 mo on HNEssential Ideas for Parents
Jason Salotti
9 HN recommender · 2015–2025
12 mo on HNStanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
Stanford
14 HN recommender · 2009–2026
11 mo on HNThe great porn experiment | Gary Wilson | TEDxGlasgow
TEDx Talks
10 HN recommender · 2012–2023
11 mo on HNADHD: Essential Ideas for Parents - Dr. Russell Barkely
ADHDtips
11 HN recommender · 2018–2025
9 mo on HNMindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Google
11 HN recommender · 2009–2017
8 mo on HN30 Essential Ideas you should know about ADHD, 1A Intro, Chronic Developmental Disability
Adhd Videos
9 HN recommender · 2017–2024
9 mo on HNThis is how you treat ADHD based off science, Dr Russell Barkley part of 2012 Burnett Lecture
Adhd Videos
10 HN recommender · 2015–2025
8 mo on HNTempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole
Fredrik Knudsen
7 HN recommender · 2019–2022
7 mo on HNGuided Wim Hof Method Breathing
Wim Hof
10 HN recommender · 2020–2024
7 mo on HNMountainWest RubyConf 2013 Devs and Depression by Greg Baugues
Confreaks
7 HN recommender · 2013–2020
6 mo on HNWhat Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
Andrew Huberman
7 HN recommender · 2022–2023
6 mo on HNWhy Is It So Hard to Do Something That Should Be Easy? (Wall of Awful pt. 1)
How to ADHD
6 HN recommender · 2020–2022
6 mo on HNDr. Gabor Maté — Trauma, Addiction, Ayahuasca, and More
Tim Ferriss
6 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HNHow I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNEverything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari | TED
TED
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HNBreakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HNHomeless man talks openly about being addicted to heroin. We have an opioid crisis in America.
Invisible People
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
4 mo on HN2012 Burnett Lecture Part 1 Keynote Speaker: Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
UNC Learning Center
4 HN recommender · 2013–2022
4 mo on HNDepression is a disease of civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory
TEDx Talks
4 HN recommender · 2014–2022
3 mo on HNDr Russell Barkley on ADHD Meds and how they all work differently from each other
Adhd Videos
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNHow to recover from depression
Psychlopaedia.org
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNGambling and the desire machine | Pay to Win
Jimmy McGee
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNLoneliness
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNThe Neuroanatomy of ADHD and thus how to treat ADHD - CADDAC - Dr Russel Barkley part 3ALL
Adhd Videos
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNBrené Brown on Empathy
Royal Society of Arts
3 HN recommender · 2013–2020
3 mo on HNCraig Ferguson Speaks From The Heart
Monke96ify
3 HN recommender · 2014–2026
3 mo on HN#NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) with Dr. Andrew Huberman
Virtusan
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
Andrew Huberman
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN"Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley)
Thriving In Science
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNIrving Kirsch: The Emperor's New Drugs
Mizzou Visual Productions
2 HN recommender · 2015–2019
2 mo on HNWhy Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs
HealthyGamerGG
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNStrange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson | TED
TED
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNHow to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED
TED
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNThe most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast
TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
2 mo on HNWhy Don't You Want To Do Anything After Binging 4 Hours of YouTube Videos...
HealthyGamerGG
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNNeurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound | 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
1 HN recommend · 2024–2024