[rl3]

Adding this as a top-level comment instead:

The person you replied to was genuinely trying to help you, and you responded by belittling them with outright hostility prior to deleting the post.

I'm not a medical professional, but what you wrote struck me as textbook grandiose delusions, among other things. Said delusions can accompany several forms of mental illness, all of which are very serious and will render you unable to hold down a job, let alone get hired.

Seek mental health treatment. There's no shame in it, quite the contrary. It could very well save your life.

https://www.lahsa.org/get-help

https://locator.lacounty.gov/dmh

[unhomedcoder]

first of all, you only expose yourself as being a terrible human being by making that comment at all about now deleted comment from the troll. why did you feel the need to even say that? you just had to come into my thread where i'm begging for any help so that i don't die and shit on me because you were offended by my tone of words?

that troll commenter said "if i talk like i write then he can see why nobody will hire me" and to "talk 90% less."

you consider that "genuinely trying to help"?

and i'm not supposed to stand up for myself in reply? since i'm on the bottom of the ladder of life, i don't count, and whatever insults people throw at me, i should just take it because i'm a beggar? i'm the one slowly dying here, not that original poster. and i'm only supposed to write dumb, in single syllable sentences and at a low enough reading comprehension level so that you and the troll don't get "exhausted"? neither you nor the troll know me, so that is a pretty big and insulting assumption to make about how i may or may not act IRL. for your information, when i am at work, i am only there to make money for the company, and i'm the nicest guy you'd know in person, and i don't "talk like that" to my coworkers.

perhaps the stereotypes are true when non-technical peasants rightly perceive "Tech Bros" and the Silicon Valley Internet Monopolist MegaCorps as being a Vampiric culture lacking any decency and empathy towards their fellow human beings.

and people like you who hand wave away the homelessness crisis by declaring "you're all just mentally ill, so i am absolved from any personal civic responsibility" are the people with "textbook grandiose delusions."

and what do you think those links to city services provide? people have this delusion that Big Govt is offering free doctors and drugs and padded cells to the mentally ill, but those dang lazy crazy druggy bums just refuse help and they choose to live on the street. if Big Govt was actually offering such comprehensive services, there wouldn't be over 50,000 homeless people on the streets of LA today right now. and it's going to be 100,000 homeless on LA streets within the next 5 years after the next recession hits. and you might be one of them.

[rl3]

>first of all, you only expose yourself as being a terrible human being by making that comment at all about now deleted comment from the troll.

That person wasn't a troll. They were actually trying to help you.

Yes, their advice was somewhat callous.

>why did you feel the need to even say that?

Because you created this thread asking for help.

Sometimes people in certain mental states aren't even aware they're in them, because being in that state blinds them from seeing that there's anything wrong in the first place.

The post you deleted included:

  a) Calling the guy an "NPC pedestrian"
  b) Quoting Galileo, in Latin.
  c) Talking about how you're speaking truth to power.
  d) Hiding your power level around Normies [sic]

Likewise in your reply here, you immediately launched into a screed declaring me a terrible human being, part of the societal-level problem, and proceeded to rail against "Big Govt".

I'm not offended, nor am I out to get you. What I'm saying is, none of that is remotely healthy—let alone conducive to solving your immediate problems. You almost certainly need to seek psychiatric care.

There's no shame or stigma in it, and there's plenty of developers here on HN that are gainfully employed with successful careers only because they're on medication.

>and what do you think those links to city services provide?

At best, what they say they do. I know the system sucks and I'm sorry it isn't better.

Either way, I wish you the best.

[unhomedcoder]

find me a single medical doctor who would agree with you that you can diagnose mental illnesses based solely on some words printed on a screen. also, find me a doctor who would agree that a non-medical doctor, such as yourself, is qualified to and should be diagnosing strangers on the Internet with mental illnesses.

QED.

(oh, sorry, there i go again quoting Latin... being smart and well read is now a mental illness... so it goes)

[rl3]

Nowhere did I claim to be diagnosing anything. I'm saying go see a medical doctor, they might be able to help you.

[unhomedcoder]

are you so forgetful and careless with your words that you cannot even remember what you just wrote, a sentence that appears 3 paragraphs above your reply?

you specifically said "You almost certainly need to seek psychiatric care."

that sounds like you're pretending to be a medical doctor and clearly diagnosing me. and in-patient psychiatric care is an even bigger logic leap for you to take without even knowing anything about me. in-patient care is for the extreme cases of mental illness for people who present imminent threats of harm to themselves or others or who are catatonic or physically incapacitated. the vast majority of people with mental illnesses can function in day to day society and only need help with managing their illness. but you immediately lumped me in with the former group of extreme mentally ill patients, not the latter.

you don't know me. next time when you think you're doing the Internet a favor and telling someone living in extreme circumstances that they are "certainly" mentally ill, well, you should resist the urge to spew your worthless opinions on the Internet and conserve the electrons and close the tab without replying.

[rl3]

Nowhere did I say anything about inpatient care, nor any specific condition or diagnosis, let alone severity.

Likewise I stated I'm not a medical professional at the very start of this conversation, yet you continue with the narrative that I'm somehow pretending to be one. You're shadow boxing with straw men here.

You claimed to have a power level you're hiding from normal people.

That ain't well dude, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that. Get help if you can.