It makes me cringe when I see the term "depression" being used lightly,
and in this instance in my opinion used for marketing.
It uses the depression the title and it does not many any further mention of it or justifies it.
It uses the depression the title and it does not many any further mention of it or justifies it.
They may be making light of it, but it's not unserious for them - they're just open about their struggles.
I have big sleeping issues, have/had depression and a neurological issue with my nerves.
But while I'm very aware of those issues, I'm not reflecting on them in public nur do I center my daily life around them.
I do talk about it sometimes but only in short amounts. Enough that people might tell me they have the same issue (family -> genetics) or they have a better understanding why I might just have concentration issues at the moment.
The author made it very obvious if not front and center that she/it doesn't feel part of a biological gender role and redefined that.
I'm wondering why my life still doesn't rotate around things I can't really change while for others it's a fundamental part of their life/how they express themselves.
There is also a blog from someone similar where that person draws quite bad images of some character. The question would also be why others evaluate their own doing in a way that they wouldn't present medicare drawing skills on the internet vs. expressing yourself anyhow.
What if the self reflection is broken?
What if not giving any feedback to stuff like this holds their own development?
I have to say I find it easier to focus on the technical things but I do get triggered by those things as well.
It's hard to determine if that person is okay or not.
There was also someone at a save space who got crazy aggressive and said that if person x is doing y again they will hit her in the face.
Is that really the definition of save space were you give a person which such crazy aggression issues space or would you expect that person to get professional help?
Being open to whom? To the internet? Why?
And now shouldn't the internet also be a save space for everyone else?
If you have a moment of panic when you are late and can't find your keys, it becomes a "panic attack" when the story is related.
Just another channel to oversaturate.
This is how I see it too.
Baby Boomers and Gen X had quite a different view of psychological issues and it had a detrimental effect on population at large. Now that a lot of the taboos surrounding it are broken, later generations are emphasising them by exaggeration.
I don't see it as an issue at all. I see it as the pendulum swinging back with more force than it was pushed.
Show me on the doll where the mean generation touched you.
If you read more of her stuff, I think it's clear that it's presented as sort of a personal space. When written for an audience that isn't The General Hacker News Audience, things like that... work differently. It might be her and like two friends in a group chat that were bouncing this around and maybe talked about how it's relevant and she wrote this up to sketch out the idea more.
When the opening says "there's still software out here that makes me feel happy to use" and the concluding paragraph says "Obviously, not all software needs to fit into this" I just don't think you can judge this by the standards of A Manifesto Seeking New Adherents.
Since then I spend a lot of time carefully evaluating tools and software before I ever consider using it or taking on work that involves it. This is to avoid the mental toil that is almost endemic in really horrible bits of software.
Quite frankly this article nails it. Software has to be comfy or it can fuck off before it hurts me.
If that is gatekeeping, well ok.
> i would very strongly object to being called a man anywhere
> i like 'it' pronouns for myself, [...] and 'she' is still acceptable, i'm still close enough to a girl for that to be okay.
Whether the software I'm using is cooperating with me can be the difference between me getting something done or giving up completely.
And it is largely about traits described in this article.
(I totally get your argument too, though)
Consumption (tuberculosis) was viewed as a somewhat fashionable disease, a sign of an artistic and intellectual nature. (It was probably viewed that way by artists who contracted it; the greater "unwashed masses" who also were afflicted with the disease had no such pretensions.) Of course, tuberculosis eventually succumbed to medicine and fell out of fashion. (It is still a problem in communities underserved with health care.) To a certain extent, depression has some of that cachet attributed to consumption by earlier generations, but Dr. Kramer thinks that depression will eventually go the way of tuberculosis and be cured with medicine.
I've suffered from severe, treatment-resistant, unipolar depression for over 25 years. I respect those who are able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and don't let depression define their lives, but there are a lot of us who are not that strong, for whatever reason, and for whom depression majorly colors our lives.