Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness?
by time_management on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @11:10AM
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Mental illness is a "hacker's topic" because it requires mental "hacking" in order to flourish in spite of it, and I'd imagine there's a large number of successful "mind-hackers" on this forum.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness?
by okeumeni on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @11:31AM
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I agree with your vision of mental illness as a "hacker's topic" if you think of hackers as a high ratio community. I don’t agree to the fact that it requires "Hacking" to deal with this very serious issue. Hacking is just a way to alleviate effect of it on the daily basis.
Again your calling a debate on a subject most people don’t even understand on a public forum, I don’t think this is productive to people with real issues. I have been there I know what I’ am talking about.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness?
by time_management on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @11:53AM
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By "hacking", I mean using medication, therapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, meditation, etc. to deal with the mind's inefficiencies. I don't mean the narrower sense, which is coding.
People post neuro articles to this site all the time. I'm not going to get into the debate over what mind is, but the brain is essentially a computer.