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I'm glad a celebrity is willing to come out and talk about this stuff, it makes me feel less insane for suffering through it myself. But there's not much actua

I'm glad a celebrity is willing to come out and talk about this stuff, it makes me feel less insane for suffering through it myself. But there's not much actual advice here. It sounds like the main thing that helped him were pills. Also: > as a white, heterosexual, cisgender man in America, I live life on the lowest difficulty setting What a pathetic, and wholly incorrect thing to say.

rhexs 8y ago
I wonder how much, if any, of depression or anxiety could be linked to having such a low opinion of what you achieved. Whether or not his assertion is true, I don't understand how that would help anyone's psyche.
camdenlock 8y ago
I suffer from depression and anxiety. I take medication, and it helps big time. There's no doubt it's a physical phenomenon. However, it seems easy these days to forget that our lifestyle and choices also have a dramatic effect on our mental well-being. This bit that you've quoted from Mr. Wheaton sets off an alarm in my head: he may be a member of the social constructionism / extreme relativism cult, which is the kind of belief system and lifestyle which could depress anyone given enough time and immersion. The amount of control that the true believers of this ideology attempt to exert over human nature is unsustainable, and almost certainly leads to strained relationships, moral confusion, poor judgment, and so on. In other words, I think Wil's got problems other than just clinical depression and anxiety. He may benefit from taking a hard look at his beliefs and challenging them a bit.
protomyth 8y ago
Its a shame when someone looks solely at a checklist with nothing to do with environment to determine how difficult someone's life has been. Its even worse when they use it to evaluate their own problems or the problems of others. I often think this is a contributor to our own mental health and causes us to cause pain to others because we are blinded to the condition versus what a checklist says they should be. It also might explain the absolute vitriol that comes from Mr. Wheaton's twitter feed. I really believe if you rage against other people by calling them subhumans it reflects on your own condition. You cannot stay happy with yourself if you put malice into the world at such high levels. Not everyone you disagree with is automatically evil of the highest order. Too many people stare into an abyss of their own making that prevents proper healing of their own soul.
ahallock 8y ago
Yeah, that is just pandering to a crowd that loves this trendy self-abasement nonsense, like white guilt, which is just another version of original sin. It's a con as old as time. While I don't think it's the root cause of his depression, the level of negativity in language like that certainly can't help his self-esteem.
anjc 8y ago
> as a white, heterosexual, cisgender man in America, I live life on the lowest difficulty setting >What a pathetic, and wholly incorrect thing to say. It's disgusting.
- dang 8y ago
  Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.

rhexs 8y ago

I wonder how much, if any, of depression or anxiety could be linked to having such a low opinion of what you achieved. Whether or not his assertion is true, I don't understand how that would help anyone's psyche.

camdenlock 8y ago

I suffer from depression and anxiety. I take medication, and it helps big time. There's no doubt it's a physical phenomenon. However, it seems easy these days to forget that our lifestyle and choices also have a dramatic effect on our mental well-being. This bit that you've quoted from Mr. Wheaton sets off an alarm in my head: he may be a member of the social constructionism / extreme relativism cult, which is the kind of belief system and lifestyle which could depress anyone given enough time and immersion. The amount of control that the true believers of this ideology attempt to exert over human nature is unsustainable, and almost certainly leads to strained relationships, moral confusion, poor judgment, and so on. In other words, I think Wil's got problems other than just clinical depression and anxiety. He may benefit from taking a hard look at his beliefs and challenging them a bit.

protomyth 8y ago

Its a shame when someone looks solely at a checklist with nothing to do with environment to determine how difficult someone's life has been. Its even worse when they use it to evaluate their own problems or the problems of others. I often think this is a contributor to our own mental health and causes us to cause pain to others because we are blinded to the condition versus what a checklist says they should be. It also might explain the absolute vitriol that comes from Mr. Wheaton's twitter feed. I really believe if you rage against other people by calling them subhumans it reflects on your own condition. You cannot stay happy with yourself if you put malice into the world at such high levels. Not everyone you disagree with is automatically evil of the highest order. Too many people stare into an abyss of their own making that prevents proper healing of their own soul.

ahallock 8y ago

Yeah, that is just pandering to a crowd that loves this trendy self-abasement nonsense, like white guilt, which is just another version of original sin. It's a con as old as time. While I don't think it's the root cause of his depression, the level of negativity in language like that certainly can't help his self-esteem.

anjc 8y ago

> as a white, heterosexual, cisgender man in America, I live life on the lowest difficulty setting >What a pathetic, and wholly incorrect thing to say. It's disgusting.

dang 8y ago
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.