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I'm curious, as I see quite a few post like this regarding coping with depression and suicide, are these very common problems among the HN/tech/startup communit

I'm curious, as I see quite a few post like this regarding coping with depression and suicide, are these very common problems among the HN/tech/startup community? Is it in some way more prevalent in this community vs other fields? Or are these posts for the most part shared and voted up as a sort of public service announcement (maybe not the best way to say it but not sure how to phrase it)? And I don't mean it to come off as somehow insensitive because if it even helped one person avoid suicide then it's more valuable than most any other posts... Just very curious as I've not personally seen this from my own relationships in this scene.

kondro 14y ago
The stress of start-up life can be very demoralising and depression is rife in our industry.
lotharbot 14y ago
> "are these very common problems among the HN/tech/startup community?" These are very common problems among humanity. It's good that this community is willing to talk about them so openly.
danielweber 14y ago
Brain scientists somehow have ways of measuring unhappiness -- don't ask me how -- and one the biggest instances they ever find isn't divorce or even death, it's getting a big amount of money and then losing it. This may be related to start-up cultures.