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Re: Ask HN: How can I help people defeat depression?

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Post by cdvonstinkpot »

zeroToAction wrote: post #13

I too had someone very close lose a battle with depression. I've been working on ideas on my own to try and come up with something useful. This is my most recent attempt: http://www.zerotoaction.com I'd love to team up or discuss ideas with you and anyone interested. It's a topic that's very important to me. This is my first post/comment, please forgive me if I broke protocol in any way. Critiques and suggestions are…

Based on what I see you doing there, I think you'd appreciate the concepts presented by 'Science Of Mind' Church of Religious Science. They've got a good (albiet long) book called 'Science of Mind' by Earnest Holmes. The churches have classes where affirmation-based 'Spiritual Mind Treatment' techniques are taught.

Re: Ask HN: How can I help people defeat depression?

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Post by zeroToAction »

mthoms wrote: post #40
zeroToAction wrote: post #13

I too had someone very close lose a battle with depression. I've been working on ideas on my own to try and come up with something useful. This is my most recent attempt: http://www.zerotoaction.com I'd love to team up or discuss ideas with you and anyone interested. It's a topic that's very important to me. This is my first post/comment, please forgive me if I broke protocol in any way. Critiques and suggestions are…

Thanks for sharing your project. It looks interesting. Be sure to let us know when you formally launch with a "Show HN" post.

I'll definitely look into doing a "Show HN" post once ready. Thank you for your feedback and suggestion!

Re: Ask HN: How can I help people defeat depression?

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cdvonstinkpot wrote: post #51
zeroToAction wrote: post #13

I too had someone very close lose a battle with depression. I've been working on ideas on my own to try and come up with something useful. This is my most recent attempt: http://www.zerotoaction.com I'd love to team up or discuss ideas with you and anyone interested. It's a topic that's very important to me. This is my first post/comment, please forgive me if I broke protocol in any way. Critiques and suggestions are…

Based on what I see you doing there, I think you'd appreciate the concepts presented by 'Science Of Mind' Church of Religious Science. They've got a good (albiet long) book called 'Science of Mind' by Earnest Holmes. The churches have classes where affirmation-based 'Spiritual Mind Treatment' techniques are taught.

Thank you very much for the suggestion. I never heard of Earnest Holmes before and I bought the book to learn more.

Re: Ask HN: How can I help people defeat depression?

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cdvonstinkpot wrote: post #51
zeroToAction wrote: post #13

I too had someone very close lose a battle with depression. I've been working on ideas on my own to try and come up with something useful. This is my most recent attempt: http://www.zerotoaction.com I'd love to team up or discuss ideas with you and anyone interested. It's a topic that's very important to me. This is my first post/comment, please forgive me if I broke protocol in any way. Critiques and suggestions are…

Based on what I see you doing there, I think you'd appreciate the concepts presented by 'Science Of Mind' Church of Religious Science. They've got a good (albiet long) book called 'Science of Mind' by Earnest Holmes. The churches have classes where affirmation-based 'Spiritual Mind Treatment' techniques are taught.

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Re: Ask HN: How can I help people defeat depression?

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Post by beerbaron23 »

nadu wrote: post #36

I feel the most important effort is to take the time to be around them and listen to them when they want to talk and not push them when they don't want to. Having seen a close friend go through depression, one of the biggest lessons I learnt was to when to keep shut and not push, but then sometimes - you have to take a call to push them to open up. When I say push - I mean asking them to "try out different things to…

This is good advice right here... timing, body language and when to push and when to give space.

Re: Ask HN: How can I help people defeat depression?

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Post by beerbaron23 »

rantaccount wrote: post #49
beerbaron23 wrote: post #46

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When you get into this situation it just snowballs and the main factor when you do actually get an interview for a good job they ask you why you been out of work so long. When it comes time to choose the employee for the job, no matter how well you did in that interview they will be thinking if he is the right choice: "how come he can't find work? we must be missing a red flag on this person that other employers are…

Heh, I'm in a similar situation. I've been out of work for over 6 months. I've been unable to find anything in my city, and now employers are starting to question why I can't find work. Truth is every nearly all tech jobs where I live pay very poorly and are mostly dead-end development agency type gigs. I don't have any money to relocate, nor do I have any money to commute for interviews elsewhere. Plus, it's very ra…

Oh yes, keeping up with technologies on your own time doesn't count for shit unless you were utilizing it on the job. Experience is what they are basing all their interviews on, an since most people embellish on what they can do during the interview and on their CV, you better be prepared to embellish as well or you will loose every time.

Timing and luck count for a lot. You won the shit job lottery that's difficult to recover from, not to mention your anxiety/autism that will hurt your chances as well.

I am only a couple weeks away from moving back in with my mother as I can't find any work and also am loosing everything, I'm a 35 year old man moving back with his mother, back to the same city I left 7 years ago to improve my life. I have even applied to a previous employer close to my mother that treated me so horribly it was the main reason I left that town in the first place.

On the positive side all I have now is this computer I'm writing on, a DSLR camera and a cell phone. So I am able to get up and go anywhere in the world possible I guess, no GF to discuss that over.

And yes alcohol sure does work, an I can't even afford that anymore.

But honestly if you keep plugging away at it, you are going to get the timing right for once (laws of probability), be in the right place at the right time and the course of life changes. This thought is one of the only things preventing me from ending everything.

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