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I think this is a fine place for these issues now, as they're important to the community and the reaction has been positive. It will help drive awareness and encourage others to seek help. Unless of course he successfully creates a help net work, then it might be time to fork off to there :)
Every life is worth living, you just need to ask for help at the right place, and people will help you see how important your life is.
Yes, their can be a separate tag SAVE@HN for threads from HN users in distress, If it even helps save 1 life, it would be damn worth it!
"I would love to give something back to you but I am not sure what that should be." I would worry about creating an obligation that would require you to have anxiety and other issues by not being able to fulfill the obligation. While it's nice and might make you feel good to give back it's hard to believe that it wouldn't be better to simply try to get yourself stronger without the obligation of doing for others. For…
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I think this is a fine place for these issues now, as they're important to the community and the reaction has been positive. It will help drive awareness and encourage others to seek help. Unless of course he successfully creates a help net work, then it might be time to fork off to there :)
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Depressed people need head doctors in much the same way that physically injured people need body doctors. For mild cases "walk it off" might work (in both head- and body- problems), but depression is more like a broken bone than it is like a mildly sprained ankle.
The first rule of search-and-rescue is "don't be a victim." Make sure you are taking good care of you.
Also, thanks for being so open. Continuing that openness and building a support group for yourself through that is something which helped me through a similar situation.