Clay Shirky On Hackers and Depression: Where's the Love?

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:27AM from the suicide-hotline dept.

giminy writes "Clay Shirky has a thought-provoking piece on depression in the hacker community. While hackers tend to be great at internet collaboration on software projects, we often fall short when it comes to helping each other with personal problems. The evidence is only anecdotal, but there seems to be a higher than average incidence of mental health issues among hackers and internet freedom fighters. It would be great to see this addressed by our community through some outreach and awareness programs."

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It's not just this community by jnelson4765 · 2013-01-24 02:36 · Score: 4, Informative

Most activist communities have a higher than normal incidence of mental health issues. Personality disorders, paranoia, anger management issues, I've seen a lot of them in various political activist groups.

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Re:FIghting the system is a mental health issue by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-24 02:48 · Score: 3, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky