This isn't a mental health community, but these posts happened and got their upvotes and that shows there's a group of HN readers right now for whom this is as important as anything else they might find on HN. It could be there's folks who can't or won't see what they need to see to help themselves outside of the serendipity of HN happening to bubble them up to the front page.

But there are exceptions to everything and the two threads are curiously distinct, in a way that makes merging them feel a bit wrong, like merging two different meals or something. So I think it's fine for indecision and oddity to win out for a change.

It seems likely the options are lacking in the lower end of the spectrum as well, there's a big jump between not at all and several days worth of symptoms

It would spark a flamewar about survey design if we ever tried that anyhow. For one thing these are all self-reported.

At the same time, perhaps multiple polls phrased only slightly differently but yielding significantly different results is a lesson in the overall problematics of polls, surveys and questionnaires.

I certainly didn't know about the feature.