You're right in many ways, but you should read the article. It's not your run-of-the-mill tech article about "depression" being a temporary sadness brought on b

You're right in many ways, but you should read the article. It's not your run-of-the-mill tech article about "depression" being a temporary sadness brought on by work-related stress, the founder's lifestyle, or any of that typical pablum. It's the personal story of someone who is clinically depressed, has been hospitalized for that depression, and wants to make understanding of depression -- actual depression, not strawman-depression -- more widespread and accepted. Why should she have written this for TechCrunch? Why not? The tech industry exerts enormous pressure to signal that one is a rockstar, that everything is better than fine, and that you're not just keeping up with the Joneses; you're lapping them. It's about time the tech press talked about depression as it really is, and not "depression" as a neutered buzzword for stress. And it's about time someone -- anyone -- restarted the national dialogue regoing about clinical depression and mental health. In 2014, the stigma surrounding depression is every bit as harsh as it was in 1998, when I was diagnosed. In some ways it's even harsher. That really sucks. We need people to talk about it, and to be honest, the more people talking about it, the better. If one of those places happens to be TC, and so long as TC isn't peddling a watered-down version of the topic, I'm all for it. By the same token, if Sam Altman wants to talk about depression and wants to do his part to alleviate the stigma, I'm all for it. None of these articles is ever going to be perfect, or capture 100% of the issue. But I'm glad we're getting these articles, nonetheless. For decades, this was something people just didn't talk about or admit to in public. I'll take public.