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Depression is definitely real, and fairly easy to diagnose for.
Absolutely real. So real that every human being will be depressed sometime in their life. It is just one of multiple mental states we have in our framework.
Climate! Listen to the Volts podcast ( https://volts.wtf ) … I’d say about half of the episodes make me want to quit what I’m doing and beg the guest for job at their startup. Climate solutions is a wide-open field, jammed with entrepreneurs and scientists going head-on with tough scientific, engineering, sociopolitical, and business problems, with pretty much everything on the line. The stuff people are working on r…
I’m interested in this. But it seems like most of the work is hardware or political or heavily impacted by legislation and integration. It’s daunting like healthcare startups are daunting. Do you have any good examples on the software side? (Not saying the other things aren’t important, just outside my wheelhouse)
Have kids or get a hobby. I'm in the same boat tbh, I don't find interesting things with programming anymore, maybe when I did it was just that I had less other stuff to do. I'd rather learn something new now e.g. last year I started doing some home music recording/production. What is your goal - if you want to upskill for your career or to start a business, fine, if not find something else to do.
I was going to write something similar, "start a family". However, the problem is that that's not just something you _just do_ - it's not like you wake up one morning and decide, "I'm going to start a family", and boom! out come the rug rats. Getting a hobby is orders of magnitute easier.
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can we stop diagnosing unknown people based on a 2 paragraph post on HN? the obsession with finding a label for all sorts of mental states is crazy. I agree with the rest of your post though
Can we stop dismissively projecting pet peeve interpretations onto posts that aren't worthy of them? I didn't say "you are depressed". I said "have you considered that you might be...". When did that become diagnosis ? FWIW I said "clinically depressed" to draw the specific distinction between colloquial use of the word "depressed" meaning "down", and the medical notion of depression that covers this sort of stuff --…
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Can we stop dismissively projecting pet peeve interpretations onto posts that aren't worthy of them? I didn't say "you are depressed". I said "have you considered that you might be...". When did that become diagnosis ? FWIW I said "clinically depressed" to draw the specific distinction between colloquial use of the word "depressed" meaning "down", and the medical notion of depression that covers this sort of stuff --…
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I didn't diagnose. I made a suggestion. Full fucking stop. I didn't imply a diagnosis.
I suggested the possibility (I even used that fucking word). That he might want to think about it. Because the entire tone of the OP's question suggested it to me. Based on my own miserable lived experience of the last two years, for what it is worth.
So fuck off with this po-faced internet warrior shit.
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can we stop diagnosing unknown people based on a 2 paragraph post on HN? the obsession with finding a label for all sorts of mental states is crazy. I agree with the rest of your post though
I wouldn't call it diagnosing. Just suggesting they consider it. Personally it all sounds very familiar. So familiar I'd admit I'm mildly depressed. But I do still have a pad of good ideas that I add to. Also very interesting is that yes even with ideas I'm not good at doing them - but the suggestion that their thing might be the enabling others to achieve theirs really sticks out for me. I'm definitely at my best he…
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Depression is definitely real, and fairly easy to diagnose for.
Absolutely real. So real that every human being will be depressed sometime in their life. It is just one of multiple mental states we have in our framework.
Please. Having a mental disorder is stigmatized enough already. Please don't play into it by implying it's not real.