[viraptor]

On the other hand, it's the trend of talking about mental health more openly that allowed me to figure out my issues. It's going to take some time for things to cool off and stabilise either way. Let's just keep in mind both the positive and negative effects here.

It's actually HN itself where someone mentioned a paper/medication that turned out to work quite well for me.

[nilsherzig]

Oh absolutely, I didn't mean to imply that these minor annoyances outweigh the benefits for society.

Being able to talk about issues like mental health problems is incredibly important and even nowadays in a modern country like Germany, not everyone is happy to do so. Every little bit of normalization helps.

Apart from that, I think it's better to help a few people who "didn't really need it" than to make it harder for those who really need help to get it.