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Ask HN: Are you depressed?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#472Holy 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?
I answered yes, even though I suspect I am not clinically depressed and nowhere near the levels of some posters on here.
But compared to the average person, I definitely appear depressed/emo/sad/tired.
And if you were to talk to me in a conversation, I would inevitably drag the conversation (like I am doing now) to be all about my woes, regrets, and how I find living in one of the best first-world cities to be "sad" and lacking of purpose. I will also cynically suggest that everyone else seems so happy and normal, that no one else really has problems. Then you might start to find me off-putting, impolite, condescending, all of which are actually just unwanted side-effects of my symptoms manifesting in social situations; after the conversation ends, I will surely start to ruminate and regret what I said, realizing that I am a PoS for having left a piece of negative energy in the world, and that the world would be better without my negativity. But since everyone in this thread is chiming in about their situation, I feel perfectly at home, because now I don't feel like the odd one out.
Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#473Not at the moment, but I have seasonal mood swings that I usually control with the gym and taking a holiday to the northern hemisphere when the worst of it hits in winter.
This year was really rough on me mentally, being away from people and couped up in the house took its toll on me and I had no real way to fix it. It's crazy how everything can be objectively ok in your life, but something like this comes along and just completely messes you up emotionally.
Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#474I am so sorry to hear what you are going through. I suffer from clinical depression and did for years before I got help. I wish I had done it sooner.
Please get help. If you are in the US and feel like you are in a crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Trained crisis workers are available to talk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your confidential and toll-free call goes to the nearest crisis center in the Lifeline national network. These centers provide crisis counseling and mental health referrals.
If you are not in a crisis, try calling 211. This number should direct you to your state's information and referral system. You can get referrals that way. Calls are anonymous.
Like others, sending good vibes your way.
Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#475Earlier quoted context omitted.
Damn, that's a shitty hand you've been dealt. I hope you find your luck turning around, and I hope you can allow yourself to operate at 10-20% without too much judgement; an individual can only accommodate so much at once. Thank you for sharing this on HN. It's always good for us, as a community, to acknowledge the less ebullient, bullish sides of our lives.
Yeah, it hasn't been easy. But I still count myself lucky, since a lot of people everywhere have had it much worse. Regarding work, I was a dumbass actually. I didn't share with any superior what was going on, spent months both hating myself and also fearing being "found out". But recently I felt so overwhelmed that I had to bring it up. I was afraid to do it, only to find out I should've done it much earlier. My man…
Thank you so much for sharing this. I've been dealing with the exact same situation for the past few months and I am really happy to hear that your manager was supportive.
I am confident that it will get better! And you should be too.
Also, I am not sure if you are doing therapy, but I would really recommend David Burn's CBT guide [1] (the meat of the book is in the first part).
[1]: https://www.pdfdrive.com/feeling-good-by-david-burns-e334132...
Right now, there's someone thinking of you and believing that you will continually improve :)
Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#476I'm living in Iran. Here the situation is disaster. it gets worth when you grow up in religious family. I can not listen to any music, watching any movie or even worth I can not play any video games easily.. Economical situation here is disaster so I can not rent a new apartment and move in.. I forced to go to male-only school, male-only high-school and even now I study computer science at a male-only university. And…
https://clutch.co/ir/developers I am curious, if you look at outsourcing to Iran, it seems that they charge 100$ per hour on average. Are you a developer? At 100 per month, I can hire you for double that :D
No doubt the consultant companies are taking a healthy cut of that $100.
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#477I lost my father recently and this has been the toughest period in my life. I grew up in India in a middle-class family and my father always went through unimaginable hardships just so that he can buy us chocolates and pay our tuition. He was still young at 65 and there was so much that I wanted to see and share with him. Realizing that this is not ever going to happen itself kills me from the inside. I'm doing okay…
I'm really sorry to hear about your father. My mom passed away in this pandemic too, and I don't know how the death of a parent is supposed to work, but it feels like it's impossible to offer them as much as they deserve. It's an odd sort of robbery of possibility :(
I am sorry to hear that.
I'm not sure how to get through this either, but as everyone says, time is supposed to heal things.
Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#478I am not depressed now but I am doing the same things I do when I am depressed. I think the difference is compassion. - it takes me hours to get out of bed but that's ok, I have loads of time during lockdown. - I spend hours daily scrolling through HN and reddit but that's ok, it's good to switch off for a bit. - I can only productively work 1-2 hours per day but that's ok, most people I ask is doing the same and tha…
I recall a comment from Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, saying to "aim low" when starting from a difficult perspective, and slowly increasing from there.
Of all the people you could have quoted, I think you chose the wrong one. Jordan Peterson has a persona and reputation that extends well beyond simply being a clinical psychologist, and that colors the issue.
Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#479Not depressed myself but like 90% of the people I know is depressed, and it has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me, I live in a country with a huge economic crisis that have led people to the most horrible suffering you can imagine without being in a war state. Most of the causes for the depression are systematically caused by the government, people even ignore their mental health and are just struggling to surv…
Anyway we can chat? I'm interested in getting more perspective on the Venezuela situation presently.
Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?
#480Earlier quoted context omitted.
The world is burning in a lot of ways. Am I think the content on Reddit represents the realisation and fears of that. I was getting super depressed lately and cut, as a result of that, almost all news, Reddit and Twitter out of my life. The situation is just to crazy to deal with it every day.
The world isn't burning, the media definitely is though. That's a dying animal doing everything it can to keep your eyes glued to the "latest disaster" and their ads of course. We are going to get a vaccine and slowly work back to normal. If you are concerned about the world, do something about your little slice of the world. Pick up some trash and drop some groceries off for an elderly neighbor.
The world is burning.
This summer was the third very dry summer in germany. A dryness i haven't seen before.
A dryness which hurt the trees outside of my window as they did not get enough water, which i also have not seen.
But don't get me wrong. Knowing whats going on is stressful, reading irrelevant drama and not reading about people who are changing and trying to change the world is frustrating.
Instead of reading about new and less co2 producing stuff, i read about an idiot trump who plays kindergarden tantrum on the highest political level. The level which should give a direction and guidance.
And yes i'm not from the USA but if 'not even' the USA can do it, i can't expect a lot more countries not to do it.
At least my country is reasonable boring and smart (yes germany go germany :P)