I've written this note in another topic on this tragic event, my apologies for the repost, but I think it's important that taboo subjects like depression are discussed. Even if this turns out to not be depression in this particular case, it certainly is extremely common amongst people in tech (sitting in front of your screen, alone, for a long time really doesn't help). It helped me a lot, personally, to reach out and see just how many people went through something similar and I hope that what I wrote might in turn help out others. So here goes the repost:
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I wrote about depression a while ago - http://sk.or.at/elou9l - maybe you will find words that help you in my post.
Always remember: You only fail in things that you do, not in who you are.
Thank you for writing that blog post. The worse part of depression has definitely been the lack of productivity. Just saying no to doing a lot of things and doing the remaining things in small chunks seems to work the best.
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I wrote about depression a while ago - http://sk.or.at/elou9l - maybe you will find words that help you in my post.
Always remember: You only fail in things that you do, not in who you are.