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Living for your dream isn't a walk in the park, so it's important to build up a network of people you trust and can talk to. Anyone that wants to talk about entrepreneurship, building, whatever and depression just hit me up online or available for coffee whenever in SF. Contact info in my profile. Reach out. :)

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I'd extend the same to anyone in the, uh, NL area. Perhaps we should set up an IRC channel specifically for this? Or does one already exist?

> it's important to build up a network of people you trust and can talk to.

From my experience with a lot of family, friends, classmates, coworkers, I agree that this can really help out someone who's depressed (PTSD too).

Texts or email sent back and forth, meeting up for dinner, coffee, or a beer have all seemed to help. Getting them a light box has helped, if they use it..

"a network of people you trust and can talk to" Or at least ONE person... (I'm in this scenario)! EDIT: at least ONE person and a cat :)

Would love to chat! :)

Thanks :) I'm in Italy... when I'm depressed I read some pages from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Ethic_and_the_Spiri...

Any advice to building a network when at small startups with most people older than you?

Don't assume too much about people. Someone twice your age might have twice as much experience with the problem you're facing. Anyone can be a useful part of your network.

Does private messaging on HN require some amount of karma or is it simply not supported?

Not supported. I have DMs on Twitter, Facebook, Baqqer, and SMS though!

If you go to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=projektir, you can edit your profile and add contact information so people can email you.

The only option is whatever contact method listed on the profile page of the person you want to contact, if any.

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