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Is depression really that much more prevalent among programmers than those of other professions? I am quite curious about this given how often you find depressi

• DanBC 13y ago
  There's a bit of skew in the number of articles here. Some high profile cases and a desire to de-stigmatise mental health problems means that people are keen to discuss good articles about mental health problems and treatment. I suspect that there is some correlation between 'programmers' and 'people who have depression' because 'programmers' includes many 'people with Aspergers' and there is known links between Aspergers and depression. Although I to would love to see good quality research. (This is perhaps a nice website idea: "Here's a research paper. What are the problems with it? Is "$Thing@ supported by this evidence? How do I find more research?" This would be an attempt to educate the public about scientific literacy.)