Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by secstate 4120 days ago
Kudos to the DjangCon Europe organizers for setting this up. I was recently listening to a sermon on Abraham Lincoln (the U.S. President in office during the civil war) who suffered from such crippling depression during his life that there's no way he'd be electable today.

Such is the exposure to the details of a persons life in the 21st century, but I feel like that makes it even more important to publicly address mental health issues. Folks should not suffer alone, and should not be made to feel less capable or important because they struggle with mental health.
2 comments
cmdkeen 4120 days ago
Winston Churchill suffered from depression he called his "black dog". He wrote to avoid it, and his prolific output, and indeed alcoholism, should be viewed through that prism.
link
scrollaway 4120 days ago
> Kudos to the DjangCon Europe organizers for setting this up.

Yeah, kudos for setting it up... but at DjangoCon? I don't get it. DjangoCons never seemed focused in the first place...

link