[rl3]

Think of starting a startup as a long road trip where everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Now imagine you have an emotional gas tank, and there's a really long distance between gas stations. If you start your journey out with your emotional gas tank near empty, you're probably not going to make it.

A startup will only amplify your depression, and when that happens you'll find yourself slowly pushing the rest of the way instead of driving.

Source: someone who went that route primarily out of having nothing to lose, almost five years ago.