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I suspect that it might be because the people who are driven to be entrepreneurs also have a higher likelihood of suffering from depression.
by cpncrunch 11y ago
I suspect that it might be because the people who are driven to be entrepreneurs also have a higher likelihood of suffering from depression.
- kvcc01 11y agoYes. Unlike the parent, I welcome reading such stories. It keeps me cognizant of the risks of ignoring mental well-being. I think our professions (programming in particular) has more mischief potential because it makes it easy to drift into solitude while remaining productive. I can easily do my work locked up in a room with my computer sustained by Instacart without much human interaction, but therein lies sorrow. You couldn't work like that if you were a dentist or a plumber. I sometimes envy the forced social interactions of other professions.
- a3n 11y agoI wonder if a life of programming, in particular, could mislead us to see big messy life as merely a stream of input, logical processing, and output.
- DanBC 11y agoSuicide is the biggest killer of men aged between 20-34, and 35 to 49, in the UK. Rates are similarly high in the US - in 2013 one person died by suicide every 12 minutes. I'm not sure that entrepreneurs have higher rates of depression or suicidality. I think that depression and suicide are just very very common.