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Being depressed is a state of mind. Being successful or not has not much to do with it (which is proven in many papers). Anxiety about failure is just a way tha

by comboy 9y ago

Being depressed is a state of mind. Being successful or not has not much to do with it (which is proven in many papers). Anxiety about failure is just a way that it manifests. Your brain always finds some ways to rationalize things that it observes. That's its job. So if you feel a bit of rush because you really want to succeed, or if you think about things that may go wrong in order to take actions to minimize the risk - that's perfectly fine and embrace it. But if it really brings you down, then it's a depression problem, not a startup problem and that's what you want to solve. I'm sure you've heard many many times how failures are necessary learning experience and all that stuff. But if your brain chemistry is not ok, your brain will rationalize it away - "but that's my only shot" and so on. Once again, you need to fix that chemistry. HN will offer you many suggestions some of them very reasonable, but it's likely that a professional will give you some better options.

jimmies 9y ago
>Being depressed is a state of mind. Being successful or not has not much to do with it. This is so true. It's all in the head. I was doing fine and felt like crap every day, and now I couldn't be more of a loser absolutely and I felt free and my creativity was unleashed and I love my life. Having nothing to lose is a great asset to have. For me what made me love my life is finally have the guts to say to myself "Shit... I fucked up! I will have to rebuild everything again." Failures are just chances to start everything anew, this time only a bit wiser.
Balgair 9y ago
> but it's likely that a professional will give you some better options. Just want to echo this. If the issue, you suspect, is mostly about depression, just go to a Shrink. They're about as much as a Friday night at the bar, and they really do help out. Maybe try a few of them out and decide. But really, just do it. Also, eat right, exercise, and sleep enough. I mean, duh. But it really does help a ton.
- JBlue42 9y ago
  Re: therapists - could be cheaper, depending on the bars. Check for 'sliding scale'.

by comboy 9y ago

jimmies 9y ago

>Being depressed is a state of mind. Being successful or not has not much to do with it. This is so true. It's all in the head. I was doing fine and felt like crap every day, and now I couldn't be more of a loser absolutely and I felt free and my creativity was unleashed and I love my life. Having nothing to lose is a great asset to have. For me what made me love my life is finally have the guts to say to myself "Shit... I fucked up! I will have to rebuild everything again." Failures are just chances to start everything anew, this time only a bit wiser.

Balgair 9y ago

> but it's likely that a professional will give you some better options. Just want to echo this. If the issue, you suspect, is mostly about depression, just go to a Shrink. They're about as much as a Friday night at the bar, and they really do help out. Maybe try a few of them out and decide. But really, just do it. Also, eat right, exercise, and sleep enough. I mean, duh. But it really does help a ton.

JBlue42 9y ago
Re: therapists - could be cheaper, depending on the bars. Check for 'sliding scale'.