If you're feeling signs of depression or panic attacks, seek out the help of a mental health professional.
There are real neurological and physical implications to the symptoms the author describes. Picking up and moving won't be an option to all, and may not work even for those who do have the option.
So if you're having problems, going to Thailand is excellent medicine, if you can afford it.
The technical community has a higher than normal prevalence of mental illness. We need to learn to put more stock in real, educated, professional advice on these topics than blog and forum-based accounts of self-prescribed solutions.
What makes you say this?
> We need to learn to put more stock in real, educated, professional advice on these topics than blog and forum-based accounts of self-prescribed solutions.
Yes. See also any thread about food.
> What makes you say this?
http://www.tablexi.com/blog/2013/04/developers-and-depressio...
>> We need to learn to put more stock in real, educated, professional advice on these topics than blog and forum-based accounts of self-prescribed solutions.
> Yes. See also any thread about food.
Food? Food sources? Cooking? Farming? What are you talking about?
So, you're just guessing about rates of mental illness among the technical community?
> Food?
Yes, food. The threads are full of weird anecdote and semi-mystical bollocks.
Advanced cases are rare, and if you've lived your life up to now without any major mental health problems, chances are your recent problems aren't major either. So by all means, take a vacation and see how you feel afterwards. If you're still feeling shitty, set up an appointment.