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Ask HN: How's Your Mental Health?

How does everyone monitor their mental health. Do you believe mental health solutions for the everyday consumer need to become more personalized?
( 5 comments | 5 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: How's Your Mental Health? by Joltik on Monday June 07, 2021 @07:20PM (#27428613)
My mental health is honestly a lot better now than it's been for most of my life. Two reasons why:

#1) Diet change.

I cut out all sugar, vegetable oils, fried food, and dairy. I prioritize grass fed beef, but I'm not fully carnivore. I'm a lot less angry, a lot more emotionally stable, and I'm able to focus a lot more. (And I lost 10 pounds!)

#2) My work ethic

I realized just how much of my anxiety came from not doing things I knew in the back of my mind I should be doing. My productivity has increased tenfold, and my future is a lot more hopeful because of it.

If a good diet and work ethic are mental health solutions, then no I don't suppose solutions need to be more individualized. Those are two things every person should have.

Re:Ask HN: How's Your Mental Health? by beforeolives on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:08AM (#27420215)
If you want to do market research, you need to either be more upfront about it or to disguise it much better. This post just feels like bad clickbait.
Re:Ask HN: How's Your Mental Health? by quickthrower2 on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:06AM (#27420811)
I feel duped - the title implies something altruistic
Re:Ask HN: How's Your Mental Health? by agent008t on Monday June 07, 2021 @07:53AM (#27421464)
People seeing other people as 'consumers' causes a lot of damage to people's wellbeing in itself.
Re:Ask HN: How's Your Mental Health? by a3n on Sunday June 06, 2021 @11:37PM (#27418771)
Not great. It's been much worse.

I notice that when I'm feeling noticeably bad, it correlates (no cause implied!) with my having angry made up mental dialogs. I guess that's a kind of monitoring.

Any health solution, mental or otherwise, should be personalized to the extent necessary for effectiveness.

Does that help your startup research? :-)