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Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by kortex »

ardit33 wrote: post #38

Nope... I am the opposite. Kinda calm, and enjoying NYC/Manhattan being a quitter place. I am mostly an introvert though, but had some major FOMO before covid. I attribute this sense of tranquility/calmness as all that FOMO is gone, since pretty much everyone is in the same boat. I also have created a routine and I go out every day, and work outside for at least one hour. Before it was in the parks, but now that is a…

> I have noticed that using a 2000lumens projector daily, instead a normal TV has made a huge improvement in my mood, and almost eliminated that SAD feeling you get in November.

This is brilliant (pun intended!) Also a good way to mess with circadian rhythms if used after 6pm-ish (unless you use f.lux)

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by snazz »

okareaman wrote: post #64
neom wrote: post #4

I was just talking to a friend about how deep my depression has gotten. It's at the point now where I'm too scared to go to sleep at night because I know it means I have to wake up and do another day.

I was suicidally depressed in 2017. A combination of medication, CBT, talk therapy and the love and care of other helping professionals got me better. I've never felt better. It gets better. My email is in my user info.

FYI: Your email isn’t visible to other users (except moderators) right now—it has to be in the About field to be visible to everyone else.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by ryanar »

I feel extremely lucky to not be experiencing depression right now. I for some reason seem to thrive with this stay at home stuff, maybe being a gamer as a kid and having my primary social outlet be friends online has helped. I tune into twitch streams and becoming a regular in certain channels feels like hanging out with a group of friends.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by dasyatidprime »

Extremely. Mostly can't focus, can barely get out of bed at all some days. Some people are trying to help with various aspects of this, and they're doing some good, but they're poorly coordinated and there's secondary damage when they get things wrong.

Out of money. I was trying to get my career back into play via Triplebyte + one or two contacts around the beginning of the year; I had some minor success, but my interviews promptly got cancelled as the pandemic ramped up. And I think my Résumé of Nothing is now even more of an infinite liability than it's been in any recent years. (I took enough of a hit at the end of 2018 to pretty much lose my ability to work, after some years of on-and-off self-underemployment, and spent 2019 trying to recover; what I managed to regain has mostly been undone again in 2020.) Oh, and video calls and screen sharing (things people want a lot of nowadays) are both tricky due to secondary effects.

I finally have a source of medication that requires less effort to keep going, and that might help stabilize. Wish me luck?

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by ograrian »

no, but optimism is dwindling by the day.

quit my job in 2018 as I was totally burnt out. figured id take a couple months off and get back to it. spent all of 2019 job hunting with no success. took my last interview in January 2020 which was also a dead end. beaten up and making zero money for all that time takes quite a toll. wife and i had our first child in march. have been a babysitter since then more or less. happy to have our child but feel totally worthless; zero income, zero prospects, tons of student debt, nothing to my name. have attempted freelance work but finding more than 15 minutes where I can sit down and do something is impossible. keep failing to start or finish things, missing deadlines. feel totally burnt out again. probably even more unlikely I can find a job at this point, no money to do anything. just completely stuck.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by kortex »

Yep. But surprisingly not as bad as I expected, given COVID, and ADHD+bipolar going into this mess. I've been reeeally depressed in the past, this isn't that. But feeling very burned out. Focus and working memory is really suffering. I'm too busy/tired to be bored but I feel novelty-deprived. I'm barely exercising and I know that's contributing but forming exercise habits is hard for me.

Would be great actually if anyone had tips on how to get exercise habits to stick. I've literally tried to addict myself to working out using nicotine gum, nope, nothing.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by mandaputtra »

kortex wrote: post #146

Yep. But surprisingly not as bad as I expected, given COVID, and ADHD+bipolar going into this mess. I've been reeeally depressed in the past, this isn't that. But feeling very burned out. Focus and working memory is really suffering. I'm too busy/tired to be bored but I feel novelty-deprived. I'm barely exercising and I know that's contributing but forming exercise habits is hard for me. Would be great actually if an…

Starting with just 5 minutes run, or maybe 1 minute push up per-day.

Start small, then you will feel not enough and then you make a big leap.

I also getting started to loose weight. just lost 5kg, still 20 to go.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by SatvikBeri »

edjrage wrote: post #108
radihuq wrote: post #102

Reminder: winter is coming[0] & days are shorter so take care of yourselves pls --- I believe depression is a spectrum so although I'm not depressed, I'm also not not depressed. Right now I'm in a good place and I accredit this to a few things I did this past week: - attended multiple virtual events (2 chat-based, 1 video) - caught up with 2 friends via phone/video call - went apartment hunting yesterday. Going outsi…

> winter is coming I was going to say "not everyone lives in the northern hemisphere, you know", but to be fair I suppose 99% of HN lives there and the rest of us are already used to this.

It turns out 90% of people live in the northern hemisphere, which surprised me! I would have guessed 60-70%.

Re: Ask HN: Are you depressed?

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Post by skeeter2020 »

watermelon59 wrote: post #87
op03 wrote: post #82

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Get a dog or three.

After cat sitting for a neighbor recently, I've been seriously considering adopting a pair of cats :)

Try out being a foster for a rescue. It gives you a chance to practice adopting, plus the organization will usually pay for supplies and medical costs. And if you're a "foster failure" (i.e. you keep your temporary guest permanently) that's not the worst thing in the world.
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