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I guess Hacker News went full Reddit, we have mentally unwell (self proclaimed mind you) commentors proclaiming other people mentally ill. The irony.
by Citizen_Lame 6d ago
I guess Hacker News went full Reddit, we have mentally unwell (self proclaimed mind you) commentors proclaiming other people mentally ill. The irony.
- BenjiWiebe 6d agoThere's different types of mental illness. For example, don't you think a person with depression would be better at diagnosing depression in others, than someone who has never experienced it?
- monkey_monkey 6d agoNo, absolutely not.
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- rurp 6d agoAn experienced runner can almost always tell if another person is an experienced runner by watching them run or hearing them talk about the activity. Same for a mathematician, or a car mechanic, or a software engineer. I don't see why the experience of mental illness would be different from every other kind of experience.
- dofm 6d agoTo be fair, it is different because it impairs perception. There's good evidence that depressed people are better at detecting simple sadness in others, and there's some evidence that depressed people are better at correctly predicting when things will have neutral or negative outcomes, but beyond that it gets a lot hazier, because depression messes with empathy, tends to project itself onto the world, and because non-depressed people will mirror your sadness when talking to you, etc. etc. (I'm not talking about depression, though, but burnout, which is its own animal.)
- dofm 6d agoI don’t use or even read Reddit. But thank you for your thoughtful input or whatever.
- Citizen_Lame 6d ago[flagged]