Anxious tech workers are going to therapy
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Anxious tech workers are going to therapy
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#2Ok do we really need to post every single NYT article on HN? Right now, there are 3 or more nytimes.com articles under news.
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#3Ok do we really need to post every single NYT article on HN? Right now, there are 3 or more nytimes.com articles under news.
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#4Everyone should go to therapy. I don't think I've ever met a person who doesn't need to talk things out, from time to time, with a semi-objective, third party.
Most of us were raised by imperfect people trying their best who still made a lot of mistakes. Even people who had really prepared parents probably experienced things which might have left us with some unresolved issues.
Go see a therapist. Its not a big deal.
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#5As usual, SV tech founders have a fix for all that ails mankind, one that takes a data-driven approach and is 10X effective!
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#6Everyone should go to therapy. I don't think I've ever met a person who doesn't need to talk things out, from time to time, with a semi-objective, third party. Most of us were raised by imperfect people trying their best who still made a lot of mistakes. Even people who had really prepared parents probably experienced things which might have left us with some unresolved issues. Go see a therapist. Its not a big deal.
and for the rest of us there's still M-x doctor
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#7As usual, SV tech founders have a fix for all that ails mankind, one that takes a data-driven approach and is 10X effective!
I've met the founders of one of the startups mentioned in the article.
They're not from SV (or from the U.S.), and they'd hardly count as "tech workers".
They're self-taught programmers who built their app in an effort to address their own anxiety, as well as a digestive illness that afflicts at least one of them, and for which university research has found hypnotherapy can be somewhat helpful (I have my own experience with these kinds of illnesses and therapies, which is why I took an interest).
You can sneer all you like, but these guys are nothing like the "SV tech bro" stereotype you're invoking, and they're earnestly working on a profoundly important problem: huge and growing numbers of people in the world experiencing mental health challenges and many (or likely, most) of them don't have the proximity or financial means to access in-person professional therapy or mindfulness coaching.
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#8Why are they anxious? that's the question ... “There’s a lot of anxiety. How could you not have that? Tech companies are fueling some of the most egregious human-rights abuses.”
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#9Shocked that a normal and healthy practice that should be done more by more and different kinds of people is big news to the NYT, because tech.
Watching the NYT (and others) from within tech over the past few years has done more to destroy any trust in mass media than anything else in my lifetime.
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#10“I deleted all the news off my phone.”
Found your problem.