Ask HN: What books have you found understandable during serious depression?

Nietzsche.

"Making Movies" by Sidney Lumet was really helpful for me in a few different ways. I think it should be required reading for anyone creating with a team.

FWIW, I was super unhappy about work some years ago. I decided to start reading some books from college that were recommended by my professors. These were books that I didn’t value at the time. I read these, and then read the books cited in their bibliographies. Rinse and repeat.

Also, at the same time I heard an NPR program where a professor would write a book review of every book he read.

I combined these two things and started having a nice collection of short writing.

Slowly, over time, my crap thoughts were replaced by a host of other much better ideas, slowly steered by my new practice of writing.