Re:Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?
by meiraleal on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:02AM
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Absolutely real. So real that every human being will be depressed sometime in their life. It is just one of multiple mental states we have in our framework.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?
by datameta on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @04:28PM
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And just like any physical pathology, people deserve to recognize and address depression if they experience it.
Re:Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?
by Yawrehto on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:29PM
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Nope. There's a difference between being sad and being clinically depressed, there's a difference between being distracted and having ADHD, there's a difference between worrying and having OCD, there's a difference between not wanting to eat a particular meal and having anorexia or ARFID.
Please. Having a mental disorder is stigmatized enough already. Please don't play into it by implying it's not real.
Re:Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?
by meiraleal on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:35AM
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Give us a break.
"Depression is definitely real, and fairly easy to diagnose for"
It is so "easy" to diagnose that a bunch of sad people go around telling others that they are depressed and the world needs to bend to their self-diagnosed "stigmatized" enough "disease". Again. Give us a break.