~ Early Web Links ~

Matt's Big Fat Arse is a candid personal health blog where Matt documents his ongoing journey managing chronic pain, fatigue, mental health, and weight. The site tracks pain levels, stiffness, and mood over time with dedicated stats pages, making it a remarkably transparent and detailed account of living with chronic illness.

Collected by wesleyac, emotional.codes is a small but thoughtful toolkit of interactive resources for navigating emotions and interpersonal relationships, including feelings check-ins, vulnerability questions, and a guide to defining relationships. It draws on frameworks like Nonviolent Communication and the Feelings Wheel, making emotional literacy more approachable and practical.

A dedicated resource hub for teens struggling with mental health challenges, offering curated links to crisis hotlines, therapy services, and supportive websites. The site also includes statistics about teen depression and suicide to raise awareness, making it a practical starting point for young people and their support networks.

Created by @giowrs, this interactive mental health resource guides visitors through their emotional state with branching prompts and connects them to crisis hotlines, breathing exercises, and curated support links. Built with care and clear safety warnings, it covers depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal ideation while reminding users that the creator is not a medical professional.

A carefully curated directory of free and substantially free mental health resources, filterable by platform, type, and symptom category including anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, and suicidality. The site brings together apps, workbooks, online therapy tools, and social support communities to help people improve their mental health without the barrier of cost.

Moftasa's long-running personal blog by Mostafa Hussein Omar covers psychiatry resources, mental health for professionals, cycling events, and political commentary, with no ads or AI content. The site features curated podcast recommendations for mental health practitioners, personal updates about life in Egypt, and posts in both English and Arabic spanning two decades.

The Open-Source Psychometrics Project offers a large collection of free, interactive personality tests ranging from rigorous academic instruments like the Big Five to quirky self-produced quizzes, all with detailed results and honest discussion of each test's validity. Visitors can explore everything from the Narcissistic Personality Inventory to a statistical character-matching quiz that compares your personality to over 2,000 fictional characters.

Jennie's personal microblog captures candid slices of her life, including a surprise ADHD diagnosis referral, burnout, and a nostalgic mission to revive old-school block blinkies. The site blends personal reflection with retro web aesthetics, making it a charming and honest corner of the modern indie web.

A raw and personal FC2 blog by 'catgirlvomit,' a self-described 'sad girl on the net' documenting her struggles with poverty, stress, college life, and emotional hardship. The site's dominant tone is introspective and vulnerable, with most posts filed under 'negative' and touching on mental health crises, therapy, and daily survival.

Rem's Planet is the creative corner of 'rem' (they/he), a neocities site centered on personal diary entries about mental health alongside illustrations and webshrines. The site has a warm, introspective tone with sections on typology, cell biology, rhythm games, and ARGs, making it a thoughtful and eclectic personal space.