Depression
Depression is a natural emotion that is caused by your body's response to the unpleasant environment you are in.
I try my best to mindfully be aware of emotions, thoughts and feelings I have and focus on improving my happiness in life.
Notes
- Jealousy is natural. You are not a terrible person for feeling jealous. That feeling of jealousy is your responsibility to find ways to work with. And you can find ways to work with it.
- Burnout is a response to repeated attempts to make meaningful change while lacking the agency to do so. See problems > try to fix them > get shot down or ignored.
- You are not “burnt out”. You are exploited, overworked & underpaid. Use language that accurately describes the underlying problem. Your body isn't broken; the conditions you're enduring are what's broken. Your body is accurately & normally responding to exploitation.
- Sometimes I feel worn out by the world. Then I remember that with just a small amount of effort and curiosity, life is so unbelievably rich, abundant, fascinating, challenging, and inspiring. The rabbit holes are infinite and impossibly deep. Find a loose thread and pull it.
- Psychedelic mushrooms increase neuroplasticity, allowing restructuring of neural connections. Essentially, you can "rewrite" your brain away from depressive thoughts.
- Feelings come and go. Consequences last.
- You can process my emotions through a different lenses. It’s truly normal to grieve the loss of something or someone. While many don’t understand, I think as long as WE know what we are dealing with, that can make life a little easier.
Links
- Ask HN: Effective methods to fight depression?
- Sara Vieira: Your brain doesn't have a fix flag
- История одной депрессии
- Tips for the Depressed
- 25 mental health wellness tips
- Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help (HN)
- Surviving Depression (HN)
- Rachel Nabors - How to survive major change (2019)
- How not to be sad (2020)
- Talking Depression with Reckful (2019)
- Solving Laziness with Asmongold (2020)
- Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress (2020) (HN)
- Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders (2019) (HN)
- Ask HN: Are you depressed? (2020)
- Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper's beautiful conversation about grief (2019)
- Ask HN: Losing all interest in programming, what now? (2020)
- Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression (2017)
- Podcasts for those with Depresion? (2021)
- Psilocybin 'promising' for depression (2021) (HN)
- A few thoughts on depression (2021)
- Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (2009)
- How do you deal with burnout? (2021)
- Тред о младшей сестре депрессии — дистимии
- Dabrowski’s Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (2020)
- Коллапс моей личности
- Ask HN: I feel trapped in my job and city (2021)
- Reflections on Burnout (2021)
- Avoiding Burnout (HN) (Summary)
- Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness (2021) (HN)
- How I Got My Brain Back (2021) - Using observation, investigation, and productivity methods to understand my depression. (HN)
- Movies about depression and loneliness
- Ask HN: Nerds of HN, did you overcome loneliness? (2021)
- Depression alters the circadian pattern of online activity (2020) (HN)
- Ask HN: How to take first steps to escape burnout? (2022)
- Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now? (2022)
- On a neural level, how does a condition like depression cause worse cognition? (2022)
- Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life (2022)
- Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study (2022) (HN)
- How to recover from depression
- Movies to Watch When Depressed
- Koko - Online Suicide Prevention Kit. (HN)
- Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? (2022)
- Тюрьма травмы: когнитивные искажения в чрезвычайной ситуации (2022)
- Ask HN: Have You Burned Out? (2022)
- Depressing movies that’ll choke you (2022)
- Burnout (HN)
- “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels (HN) (Paper)
- Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?