Great perspective. Question for the HN community: Why/How is it that small communities like HN have removed the stigma attached with mental health while larger society has not?
There are probably still people on HN who respond negatively to an admission of depression, but they're (wisely) keeping quiet.
To be honest, the number of people who are open about mental health problems in posts like this is fairly surprising to me.
They haven't - there's still stigma around MH problems. It just doesn't show itself in threads like this.
See any thread about i) interviewing or ii) spree shooting and there'll be plenty of stigmatising comments.
It's not so bad, because at least most people on HN are happy to talk about it.
It is great that there has been a quite open and kind discussion as that is what is needed.