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When my son was 3 he told me after a pet had died, "it's ok to be sad sometimes".

Hey man. You'll get through! Wish you the best.

I was hit hard by melancholy a few days ago. Thanks for the well wishes, sympathies from Ohio and I hope your pain mellows.

Hang in there, and I hope the same for you!

https://www.talkspace.com/ is for feeling sad, not HN.

HNers are here for the intellectual stimuli and thus may not give you what you are looking for.

Nice self-fulfilling prophecy there.

I think it's ok to be human for a minute, even for HN.

Much like Stack Overflow I think HN could actually be more useful if it lightened up a little. It needn’t instantly degenerate to reddit if a joke or feelings are allowed.

It's ok to feel things on HN. Intellectual curiosity, the core value of the site, is a feeling.

They're trying to gather all the sadness on Talkspace so it can some day be subject to a sudden shut down and sadness will be eliminated, forever!

Likewise for intellectual stimuli, on HN.