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Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 by brookst on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:38PM (#34713670)
The parent comment was asserting that STEM types are “high anxiety” and implicitly dismissing non-STEM people as somehow having less anxiety. I think it is fair and healthy to acknowledge that, as you say, everyone has “the worst stress of their life”, regardless of STEM-ness.
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Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 by LeroyRaz on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:40PM (#34715661)
I interpreted the comment differently. I thought it was saying that the pressures and anxieties of 'high anxiety' STEM people are not necessarily representative of the average person's experience. I.e. saying that the readers of hacker news are more likely to feel the stresses of feeling the need to be hyper successful, whereas others migh on average be more well adjusted
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Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 by thatfrenchguy on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @07:21PM (#34717828)
This is what I meant indeed
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Re:The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012 by jibe on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:46PM (#34715745)
I don’t think it dismissed non-stem people, but there is plenty of data supporting anxiety correlates with intelligence. It is not surprising that HN is an anxious group.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269637/

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