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Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by genidoi »

rsweeney21 wrote: post #208

I'm fighting every day to keep the depression at bay. I've been through the same thing as every one else this year, plus my sister took her on life in March and my startup that was flying in February, has been hammered by the pandemic. I felt like I was about to slide back into depression in May. I needed something that I could accomplish that was completely within my control. I decided to start lifting weights. It h…

+1 to compound weightlifting (Barbell squats, deadlifts, bench press, military press) have done more to help me manage my mental health than any other avenue. 45 mins per day, 3-4 days a week and life just feels brighter. Keep it simple, https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by hunterwerlla »

riffraff wrote: post #199
patcon wrote: post #128

Remote work is not for me. I'm struggling pretty hard. I miss people. I miss my sense of being good at the parts of work that involved people. I'm shit at working alone. I'm not productive like some are, and all my best assets were how I could support people around me and help them love what they were doing. All I have left of work are the parts that make me feel badly every day. Fuck this pandemic.

I am not trying to be dismissive, I understand missing people, but why can't you support people around you in a remote environment? You can pair with someone, or have informal chats, or plan some online game with your colleagues, have presentations in your team around work or non-work related things, setup a book club. It is harder and not as good as in-person interaction, but maybe you can get some good out of it. E…

I very much disagree with this. I agree with the top level comment, remote work is not for me. I understand that some people work well with remote work, but for some reason people who like remote work seem to not understand that some people prefer working in the office. I don't think that these kind of things replace an in person environment, and I'm really looking forward to when I can go back into the office.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by Talanes »

whatl3y wrote: post #40
Kuinox wrote: post #6

I want a "I don't know" tick.

I periodically suffer from what assume are symptoms of depression, but I can usually pinpoint the triggers that caused them (a lengthy social media session filled with large amounts of scrolling reviewing dozens of happy families hugging and kissing each other, a missed deadline that I'm emotionally connected to, a hangover, rainy weather, etc.) Although I don't do this every time I suffer from the symptoms, usually…

I feel like I'm in the same boat. Am I making poor decisions and rationalizing the resultant pain as depression, or am I depressed and blaming myself over it?

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by DangitBobby »

swat535 wrote: post #186

Nowhere else to post this so here it goes. I lost my job in January. From January - March I started looking for a job and then COVID hits at the height of my search, now suddenly no one is hiring and all the businesses are slowing down. My girlfriend of 13 years left me the day after my birthday in June before I had a chance to propose to her, I had to return the ring, she had no idea and I never told her about it. I…

I find that Reddit sucks the joy out of my day. There's just something about that site.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by nl »

TOMDM wrote: post #47
briefcomment wrote: post #16

Holy crap, that's a way higher percentage than I was expecting. What are some of the reasons you all have for being depressed? Also, is this possibly a self selective poll? Are non depressed people not bothering to answer?

As someone who has suffered from depression in the past, I'd like to borrow Steven Fry's words on depression: “You don’t get depressed because bad things happen to you. . .depression is something that happens like weather to you, it’s inside you. . .it’s not enough to talk yourself out of it by saying, ‘but I shouldn’t be depressed because I’ve got people who are nice to me’. . .It’s very important, at least to get t…

A million times this.

Depression isn’t sadness, or being unhappy. It’s not even really on the same dimension as those things.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by clement_b »

genidoi wrote: post #221
rsweeney21 wrote: post #208

I'm fighting every day to keep the depression at bay. I've been through the same thing as every one else this year, plus my sister took her on life in March and my startup that was flying in February, has been hammered by the pandemic. I felt like I was about to slide back into depression in May. I needed something that I could accomplish that was completely within my control. I decided to start lifting weights. It h…

+1 to compound weightlifting (Barbell squats, deadlifts, bench press, military press) have done more to help me manage my mental health than any other avenue. 45 mins per day, 3-4 days a week and life just feels brighter. Keep it simple, https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Such an overwhelming article...

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by nl »

seotut2 wrote: post #157

What's the point of this? Yes, I am severely depressed among other issues I am facing. I haven't had a job in 3 years, after burning out and started having panic attacks. The finances are so stressful that are making me just numb. I can't make any decision, the executive part of my brain appears to have shut off. Also, depression is not an illness. It's a defensive mechanism, just a symptom of a certain body state. I…

Depression is an illness (well technically I think it’s called a disorder).

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by jes5199 »

nefitty wrote: post #46
Kuinox wrote: post #6

I want a "I don't know" tick.

One of my friends went to a psychiatrist for ADHD symptoms and he got diagnosed with depression. He was like, “I didn’t know I was depressed!”

I just had the opposite experience - treatment resistant depression turned out to be undiagnosed ADHD!

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by sreejithr »

I have existential depression. Or at least that's what Google tells me. Pretty close to nihilism. I don't believe life has any meaning. Hence I don't find anything worth doing. Yet I still do stuff. But life is depressingly hopelessly empty.
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