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Is this actually diagnosed? Panic attacks don't mean you have PTSD nor does being stressed mean you suffered a traumatic event.

scrollaway 3y ago
Maybe try empathy. Startup life can be seriously fucked up and the long hours / low sleep / unhealthy routine it’s easy to fall into can really ruin your life. Coupled with founders fighting, drama boiling over months or years of invested time, etc. What, it’s not traumatic enough for you because you didn’t get to hear a gunshot?
- that_guy_iain 3y ago
  Startup life may be tough, but it does not cause PTSD. PTSD is literally a thing that is medically defined. They may have came away from their startup journey in a bad place and in need of mental care but almost certainly they did not come away from it with PTSD. It is insulting to those of us who have it when someone says their stress and anxiety are anywhere close to the symptoms we have from PTSD. Just like it's insulting to say you have OCD when you like to have thing colour co-orientated.
  - scrollaway 3y ago
    You are not a psychiatrist. Stop diagnosing people. An acquaintance of mine did get PTSD from startup life. Yes, medically diagnosed. This being HN, you won’t have trouble finding such people. Just because some people exaggerate doesn’t mean it can’t happen, and kindly, quit the whiteknighting when you’re doing exactly what you’re accusing others to do.
    - that_guy_iain 3y ago
      > Stop diagnosing people. I pointed out it's very unlikely to get it from a startup and when someone said they had it I asked if it was diagnosed. They went on to say it wasn't. > quit the whiteknighting I don't think you know what that means. You're using it wrong.
seanhunter 3y ago
Wow seriously? It's a blog post and they weren't talking to their therapist they were talking to some narcissist who went on to write about it to be smug. I don't think the person was saying they had clinical PTSD and neither am I in this case. It's terrifying that I have to say this.
- that_guy_iain 3y ago
  You just said you had PTSD. I asked if you were diganosed and clearly the answer is no. It's terrifying that you don't understand the difference between stress and traumatic events. That you don't understand that it's not cute to compare yourself to people who have debilitating flashbacks. The difference between "clinical PTSD" and your "PTSD" is one is actually PTSD and the other is you need some help destressing. If you even had half an insight into how bad PTSD actually is, you would trivalise it. With nonsense claims such as "I got PTSD from being stressed".
  - seanhunter 3y ago
    I didn’t say I had ptsd I said I had severe stress from which I concluded that it is possible that someone could get ptsd. Secondly focussing on whether or not someone has been diagnosed is kind of missing the point.
- heleninboodler 3y ago
  > I don't think the person was saying they had clinical PTSD Well, I think part of the criticism of the blog post is that it's written as if the person must actually have had clinical PTSD. Otherwise he wouldn't have any cause to get preachy about how terrible it is to joke about it and "knuckle through."

scrollaway 3y ago

Maybe try empathy. Startup life can be seriously fucked up and the long hours / low sleep / unhealthy routine it’s easy to fall into can really ruin your life. Coupled with founders fighting, drama boiling over months or years of invested time, etc. What, it’s not traumatic enough for you because you didn’t get to hear a gunshot?

that_guy_iain 3y ago
Startup life may be tough, but it does not cause PTSD. PTSD is literally a thing that is medically defined. They may have came away from their startup journey in a bad place and in need of mental care but almost certainly they did not come away from it with PTSD. It is insulting to those of us who have it when someone says their stress and anxiety are anywhere close to the symptoms we have from PTSD. Just like it's insulting to say you have OCD when you like to have thing colour co-orientated.
- scrollaway 3y ago
  You are not a psychiatrist. Stop diagnosing people. An acquaintance of mine did get PTSD from startup life. Yes, medically diagnosed. This being HN, you won’t have trouble finding such people. Just because some people exaggerate doesn’t mean it can’t happen, and kindly, quit the whiteknighting when you’re doing exactly what you’re accusing others to do.
  - that_guy_iain 3y ago
    > Stop diagnosing people. I pointed out it's very unlikely to get it from a startup and when someone said they had it I asked if it was diagnosed. They went on to say it wasn't. > quit the whiteknighting I don't think you know what that means. You're using it wrong.

seanhunter 3y ago

Wow seriously? It's a blog post and they weren't talking to their therapist they were talking to some narcissist who went on to write about it to be smug. I don't think the person was saying they had clinical PTSD and neither am I in this case. It's terrifying that I have to say this.

that_guy_iain 3y ago
You just said you had PTSD. I asked if you were diganosed and clearly the answer is no. It's terrifying that you don't understand the difference between stress and traumatic events. That you don't understand that it's not cute to compare yourself to people who have debilitating flashbacks. The difference between "clinical PTSD" and your "PTSD" is one is actually PTSD and the other is you need some help destressing. If you even had half an insight into how bad PTSD actually is, you would trivalise it. With nonsense claims such as "I got PTSD from being stressed".
- seanhunter 3y ago
  I didn’t say I had ptsd I said I had severe stress from which I concluded that it is possible that someone could get ptsd. Secondly focussing on whether or not someone has been diagnosed is kind of missing the point.
heleninboodler 3y ago
> I don't think the person was saying they had clinical PTSD Well, I think part of the criticism of the blog post is that it's written as if the person must actually have had clinical PTSD. Otherwise he wouldn't have any cause to get preachy about how terrible it is to joke about it and "knuckle through."