Comment: Dealing with Depression as a Geek
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I've been going through a lot of stuff with my dad after his second heart attack a year ago. He lost the ability to walk and so I've been having to take care of him completely since then. Dialysis, diapers, cooking, ferrying back and forth... completely. I'm here now because after I graduated from tech school for I/E technician I haven't been able to even search for a job due to all of this. My goal for I/E was to become a PLC/PAC programmer, but I've decided to study computer programming and eventually aim to be a software engineer. Part of that is due to your channel here, and I'm really glad I found these videos. I spent about ten minutes staring at my steering wheel wondering whether I was about to cry or not earlier today and this made me feel so much better!
+Freek314 We'll probably never meet, but I just want to tip my hat off to you and say I respect you for taking care of your dad and staying by his side. You're a hero. I hope all turns out well for you.
Freek314 I wonder.. How does it went for you?
Eli The Psychiatrist Guy
One of the best videos about depression I've seen, and from an unlikely place.
+jed52 You are so right. I could hear my Counselor talking in all Eli said. I came hear for some tech stuff, I'm just interested, not in the profession, but Wow, what a video. Thank you Eli.
Well if this is the most unlikely place then your not a real geek haha. just joking. As Eli said, we are not like most employees at all and that's the truth, its much easier to get fired as a tech geek as any other profession would..
people complain to high heaven when things go wrong and they end up not wanting services again.. Food takeaways can be crap but due to so many out there the customer will always find another food store fast to meet their needs, not so easy to find another techy to do exactly what you want and you won't need tthe techy as much as food so the techy always loses out so we have to be as good as we can (highly knowledgeable, edu does help a lot!!) at whatever we do in the tech world..
I'm not REALLY a sports guy, but, i think that exercise is one of the best ways out of a tech depression. I know that we feel like doing nothing and we hit pause, but mind and body are particularly connected and we as tech professionals sometimes forget about it...
Our minds has incredibly high capacity to deal with a lot of complex tasks and responsibilities, but with good exercise the body can compensate mind failures greatly. Of course there is that point where you just need to stop, take the damage and keep going but....
What i want to add here is, EXERCISE coders, our brain can keep working at high capacity if you manage to balance body and mind.
+Pierre M S Silva Agreed, exercise REALLY helps, even just a short walk every day. But, the more exercise, the better I think.
+Pierre M S Silva not so much the exercise as sun time. There have been a lot of studies done to show the effects of sun on our moods. Unfortunately the server monkeys usually have the least visual rooms in the house :(.
Hey Eli, I just wanted to personally thank you for this video because your words meant everything to me when I thought no one understood me. Thanks!
hey can you please explain your profile picture
Hello Eli and Commenters,
In my opinion, it is essential to exercise the brain and the body. Many IT professionals, do not get enough physical exercise. Wellness encompasses the, "Six Dimensions of Health": Mental, Physical, Emotional, Environmental, Social, Spiritual. It is vital to balance the strength of the brain with the body--the two need to work in tandem. A healthy diet, ample amount of physical exercise, 6 - 8 hours of rest, and a few more important elements will lead to a high powered life. Engaging in some new and exciting activities will also yield beneficial rewards. Working on all six dimensions of ones health will promote, "Wellness". I hope everyone is doing well and keep up the excellent work!
Sincerely,
Jason
A geek life is extremely unnatural ( breathing toxic air, sitting for long periods, lack of natural sunlight, etc) so it is only predictable that depression comes with the territory.
Around 8 am the body releases a hormonal cascade to ready one for physical work. If we plop ourselves down in a chair we are not burning off the bio-chems instead we are being pickled by them. This is why so many people have heart attacks in the am
People don't understand what we do, I was a tech with AT&T. I was taking a computer class and the teacher asked me what I did for a living, I said I'm a telecommunications tech with AT&T. He said you're the guys who come in and punch down the wires on those blocks.
i've found that helping people when i'm depressed is so difficult, if I can't find my feet and my willpower on any given day nobody will get help, and I used to help people (friends/family) relentlessly but now, they're not getting attention. My Energy feels like it's at 1/10th of what it was. It feels like it's happened over about 3 years... it was gradual and I thought I was just getting moody and my circumstances at the time would have upset anyone but i'm normally cyclical. don't ignore the initial signs of depression, when you start drinking or pushing people away (the closest people to you) take action and reevaluate.
Eli you are the whole package with these videos. I'm not in IT, currently self-studying for the A+ (I know, it's not much) as the first step toward getting out of my long term dead-end warehouse job... For the longest time I had no direction and you described exactly how I was feeling during those times. In a horrible cycle (it wasn't just the job but I won't bore you all with the details). You also perfectly, poignantly expressed what finally helped me begin breaking the cycle. You have to recognize the pattern, identify the root cause(s), lay out a plan, and make positive, impactful changes. I'm still working at it but I've improved I would say 90% already, and it was exactly as you described here. I'm just seeing this one for the first time but what you say is so true. Thank you for these videos, you help people more than you might know, with both tech talks as well as personal talks. Keep on keeping on.
This was an EXCELLENT video and should be required viewing for anyone that's been in the consulting practice for more than a few years. My life blew up in a spectacular fashion late last year because I didn't sense the warning signs coming. Getting back on track now. (The advice to 'not focus on the damage' is excellent, and fortunately something I figured out on my own ... water under the bridge so to speak). The trick is to see these meltdowns coming and walk way until you get your head together. If your judgement is compromised, it's already too late. THANK YOU @Eli for this video.
Thanks Eli, your video came at exactly the right time. I'm at a real decision point at my job and if I want to continue to deal with the craziness that goes along with it. You've really helped clarify my thoughts and how I'm going to handle things.
as a guy who was in therapy myself and tried medications i have to say that medications only reduce the symptopms but not the trigger. thats 100% up to you. a therapist woll not drag you out of the misery. no you do it allyourself. a therapist can help but actual work has to be done by yourself. there are way to may people that think medication and a therapist is all you need but thats simply not true.... have you ever worked something else than in the IT? i did and im telling you that doing physical work with depression is as hard as mental work i know both.....
Eli, you're dead on. Whenever I feel stuck or depressed, I always work on something satisfying to remind myself I'm fine.
Very interesting discussion on this. All of this pretty much also applies to the more creative jobs around tech as well.
Lots of great points. I've dealt with depression on and off my whole life, mainly the first category you mentioned... been diagnosed recently with bipolar. In addition to which, the profession itself often creates many of those "events" you mention for the second category. Because I'm bipolar, unlike most technology professionals I actually can power through it; I didn't realize why until I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. My manic state is essentially a super-power that lets me muscle through any sh*t storm and pull other people with me. But it comes at a cost, as I when I'm down i experience the 'profound tiredness' you speak of, burn outs, or blow outs. The latter, to one of your points, do in fact make people not want to work with you, I can attest to that firsthand. The highs are indeed high, but the lows, while less extreme, I think are the more the common state in the industry. * The * most common state is somewhere in between; but comparing highs and lows, the highs are less frequent. Most people (non-tech) have no idea what professional technologists have to deal with on a daily basis. And many young technologists, or kids that want to join, don't realize everything they are getting into. Many employers unfortunately take advantage of their ignorance in order to over-task them.
I'm a software engineer. One of the things that continues to amuse me is that most lay people think that coding is a 'rote' task. They think that we just plug this thing into that thing and voila, magic achieved... like digital Legos or something like that. They don't realize to what extent software engineering, and even more hardware-oriented tasks, is a creative endeavor. You have a lot of tools lying around, but there is more than one way to use them. And depending on what you want to accomplish with those tools, you are going to encounter different obstacles and puzzles to sole to achieve your goal. But there are new challenges every day, no matter how much experience you gain. Once you reach one vista of experience, you push yourself, and the people around you push you, to try ever more ambitious things, which presents new challenges, et cetera. And often times, you have to * make * the tool, because it doesn't exist.
Take RAID arrays, for instance. Like I said, I'm a software engineer, not an IT guy. But I also build computers as a hobby, I've built a workstation at work for my wife, and at my last job, where we literally had no IT staff, or dev ops, or anything of the sort, I had to step in and build, install and configure multiple servers. I've now installed 3 RAID arrays on two different OSes - Windows 7 and Centos 7 - on 3 different machines with 3 different onboard RAID controllers, one with an LSI oprom, one with the Intel oprom, and one with the latter but via the IRSTe software from Windows. Now, not being an IT guy, I'm not very experienced with RAID. Every install was different. Every install had problems. Every install took a day or more to accomplish. 2 of the 3 installs required me to reinstall the OS from scratch because I fubared it so badly. All of the controllers, and the various software used to control the arrays, are documented. But documentation never provides 100% coverage or clarity of the subject matter. Search literacy is very important as a technology worker. But searching online will only get you so far. What do you do when you have read all the documentation and you are staring at an unresponsive machine that won't boot? You have to think. You have to troubleshoot. You have to problem solve. It's just you and your brain at those moments, and that's a daily occurrence for most of us; it should be if you are getting any work done, anyway.
That is the takeaway for me in that part of your video; there are people in the comments who took exception to your identification of the exceptionalism of technologists. One comment noted for instance that IT professionals are replaceable. Of course they are, that's missing the point completely. Ultimately any employee can be replaced. The question is, what will the business impact be when they leave, and how difficult will it be to replace them? I've had to interview dozens of software engineers, and I can tell you, finding talented technology employees is a long, arduous, time-consuming and expensive task.
Thanks for the video; rare to see someone discussing facets of the industry like this.
I think that IT pepople often times overvalu importance of theyr profession. Outside virtual wolrd there is also a real world that is as important as virtual.
For the business Sales is as important as IT, there is no money for IT stuff salareis if there is no sales.
You menthioned that construction worker can not screw up so much in his job, as IT worker can. But if there are big mistakes in construction a building can colapse and lot of people can lose theyr lifes as a result of that.
A bus driver or a plane pilot also take big responsibilty, the same as doctors do. Dont think that other professions are less responsible then IT.
Server crash is nothing in comparison to a plane crash.
But on the depression side totally agree. Nothing is as important as helth spetaly mental. If you loose that you loose everything.
I was thinking very similar things in regards to other professionals such as Sales Teams who drive the products/services, and if they don't meet their targets they fail to bring revenue into the business, the planning and precision required when planning and building construction sites, if that is wrong, then the results are catastrophic! I'm currently a registered health care professional in the UK, prior to that spent 12 years in IT, the stress and chronic exhaustion that I current,y deal with in my health care role, doesn't even compare to what I experienced when I was on IT. I'm even going through the steps and process to leave health care and return to IT.
Great vid Eli, thanks for bringing this subject on the table, did not originaly thought I would be exposed to such content (but nevertheless pertinent) when subscribing on your channel to gain IT real life knowledge; cannot agree more with you about the whole thing on self-motivation when performing tasks that almost nobody understand in your professional entourage when acting as an IT professional. I hope you keep doing your vids for a very long time!
Wish id seen this in 2014 when i started in tech support which was my first real tech job. A lot further along with both career and mental health but each step forward feels like 2 steps back. Keep up the good work eli
Before I saw your video I though I just had to push through. I've had physical jobs where I was hurt and just pushed through to the other side. I had always did tech jobs on the side and was good. Then I hit a rough patch and after that I decided I would start an IT business. Now I'm dealing with my aging parent and grandparent as an only child. The stress of the situation has effected my business. I started off really good but lately I'm in this mudpit of a situation where I can't seem to get back on track. I'm on a mental rollercoaster and its depresses me often to the point I just go somewhere to be by myself. Its hurting me financially because I can't keep up the business. I really didn't know what to do. But now that I've seen your video I think I'll just pause the business long enough to figure out how to manage them so I can get back to working. Thanks Eli
Hey Eli the Computer Guy. I too am dealing with depression. I have been dealing with it for about a year and its the kind where it is brought on by stress. It is a booger to handle at times and a major thanks to a shrink that helped me out, I am doing better. I hope you can just hang in there.
I appreciate you sharing your stories and experiences. You're helping us learn more about IT in a few minutes than we could learn in hours, days, weeks, etc reading books and taking classes.
Dear Mr. Etherton,
I want to thank you for making and posting this video. About a year ago I subscribed to your RUclips channel, and I've watched a lot of your videos and have learned a lot. You've explained things in a clear and organized way regarding many topics I have been interested in.
I work in the private service industry (i.e. service to uber wealthy individuals) and can relate to several things you shared in this video. Your openness about the need to press pause and your openness that you to have to deal with this issue personally has helped me to not feel alone in my struggling with this issue in my own world.
I look up to you for your being a role model in this regard.
My gratitude to you.
it's normal to be fatigued after running a marathon. I think you just need a break to recover. I've gone through phases like this and I think I was burnt out. taking a break really helps.
Wow i watched the previous videos but the last one hit home hard!!!
Loneliness and Isolation as a Tech Professional
Being 100% Right, And 100% Fired
Being An "Asshole" As A Technology Professional
Dealing with Depression as a Geek
These all hit home and wow does Eli have honest truth and great suggestion! Press pause is crucial even if it causes financial struggle, our mental health is key in monitoring and taking necessary action. All these videos are just too true....
I feel you on that one. Issues at home just make it all the worse, especially if you are working from home at any point.
Thanks Eli. I'm not depressed but i love your introspection about IT folks. I feel not being understood personally and professionally and not fully understanding ones own motivations and mental state, is a difficult aspect about being in this field.
Sometimes it is a good release to just toss a wrench into a smooth-running process just to force more complex thinking.
Eli, thank you for this. One of the best. I can relate to all "geek depression" that you talk about. My ex CEO always said I have no idea what you do but keep doing it. :)
i think weary is the word you were looking for....
Thank you so much for this video :) it's what I needed.
Soo, this made me motivated enough to go outside and walk around a nearby lake. So I did it, only to find out that I dropped my phone on the way and I couldnt find my phone after around 3 hours, so now I just bash myself over it. .. . . I went home, went to bed in hopes to be able to be more clear in the head the day after to go find it. Around 2 inches snow came while I was asleep. Yeahh.. Doubt I'll see that phone again. Don't have the IMEI or anything.. The brightside, it is supposed to be waterproof. The con-side, it doesnt have a camera lens, making it.. non water-proof. Kill me anyone?
did you find your phone?
i do same job, i completely agree with you, our job and life go together, it s sunday but i m thinking how to plan backups for a company and at same time i wont break policy entering the server remotely but at same time i cant do the backup while ppl are working and sooooo stressss :-D i press "pause" for today!
Eli,
I often listen to your videos as background entertainment and information as I dredge from one RDC session to the next, so I hope you get the rest you need and come back to us at some point. Nothing but good thoughts being sent your way big guy!
I am currently dealing with severe depression, and I have been stuck in some kind of cycle of complete apathy for months now. Which is completely incompatible with being self-employed, like I am currently trying to do. Thanks for the advice.
+SteelSkin667 this is sooo beautiful
This was quite profound, thanks for opening up. Actually more insightful than many famous self help gurus. After managing an IT for 12 years I worked at home and went off the rails.
Thank you Eli. Giving ones self a pass because we need it isn't often talked about. I think you are skilled/talented at making youtube videos.
Great video. I'm not a I.T. person but I can relate what you're saying. Thanks for the pep talk.
This man is very wise.
When the mind stops knowing how to bother with the self, the person who panics a bit and reaches out to someone, or buys something for a new hobby, whatever needed to get happy, when you get an essential idea to fight it I mean, he/she will avoid getting worse. 2 things -know to bother, know to panic if you stop bothering.
Great vid! I am working for a company from last 12 years as an IT engineer and Database Administrator and built an entire IT infrastructure from ground up. And now I have anxiety and panics on multiple basis. Coz company was not realizing my profession and my work. Did all Cisco vpn and routing stuff. Did voice Over ip and messaging system. Did Oracle db Dev and db administration. Did Microsoft system admin stuff all that group policy stuff. Did ERP second line of support for the company. Did lots of sql and crystal reporting to collect business analytical stuff now I feel crazy
Excellent points well said.
Great video Eli, thanks for being so honest. I think it is true that if you don't care of your self, you will also struggle to care for others. It's so important to take time to rejuvenate. Thanks for all the tech lessons!
I have this depression in the IT profession, as I am the only one dancing when I have just overcome a great obstacle in the IT world. No one seems to understand your insanity. Except that I know I want to install networks again, and can not breath without doing so. It is just the joy of networking in excellence.
When my dog died & a month later I broke up with my boyfriend I went though probaly the worst depression in my life. The only thing that helped me to keep sain & recover was my job. The second thing was my hobbie, collecting & restoreing vintage computers.
I come home from work & restore vintage computers, work I spend messing with computers.
Life is never really about any of the highs, it is all about how we recover from the shit & build something better.
Eli, I want to say that this video has really helped me out a lot. I thank you for making it. While I am not neccesarily a "geek", I am a double engineering major in college right now, and this video has helped me out significantly. I don't think that I can really say it enough. I don't know if you will see this, but I hope you do.
I agree...especially the part near the end when you said about doing the same thing the next day and hoping for some miraculous change...as Albert Einstein said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome"
Yep, sometimes the wave just crashes and pulls you under. Agree that medication can help when you get so low that you can't see the path out.
I have noticed that lots of hours of intense problem solving depletes your mood. I think it is a depletion of acetylcholine, the main neurotransmitter of the brain. You can feel it coming on, and it progresses to emotional depression. I am thing of trying choline nutritional supplements like Brain Food. The brain is like a muscle and complains when you abuse it.
I have been depressed quite a bit lately, but I think part of it is the long hours. Even hitting 45 hours a week I start getting a little crazy. I can make a streach to hit a goal, or finish a project so I don't have to think about it the next day, but I don't want to devote my life to someone else's property.
a slang word in my country is sian.. to describe a general feeling of boredom and emptiness and frustration
Eli, i am just zooming in on your videos, since i am researching this career as my zone of interest. But back to your talk on depression, you should be highly credited for being honest, i felt you were. Thank you, then again, as a master in your field, you do need to take a break, and not run around in a cage after the cheese, day after day after day, like mice. You saw you had to pause, and this is so vitably important. I say you have the right idea, stepping aside and taking time off, vacationing sounds like a great source for a mighty powerful comeback. You certainly did have a vision for a plan, and it makes much sense. It might have been damaging to others, who were involved in the contract, but your life is on the line, you knew it had to be your way, and it should. You are a fantastic guy, your wife should be proud of you. I like you both, and i don't know her, but you are on the right track. I will take this as an experience in my future life as an Information system manager.
The analogy I use when talking to "normal" people is having a wet blanket on my brain, there is no inspiration, no thoughts, no desire to actually do anything other than just sit and just be entertained
Some real world shit right there. Even the prospect of 'not being able to fail' or 'not being able to switch off' is enough to invoke depression in most folks. I've worked a variety of professions and being a top level Sysadmin is the hardest by a mile. And this is coming from a guy who'll still throw a punch with a broken arm.
Damn Eli, I have always thought of you as a person who has his shit together. Never Cries. Never Flinches. I respect you more for admitting that you are dealing with this issue.
i agree with you eli taking work home thinking all the tie never switch off tech rules always etc
Wow this vid has been most helpfull indeed. Some points i've already been through and dealt with the way you describe them. Like not fixating on the problem, but accept what happend, move on, and try to mend it later on when you feel ready. It's energy wasted when trying to fixate on the problem. Rather look for a solution. And it doesn't have to be at that time. Also, i'm learning right now that my boss (i'm an intern) has no idea of what i actually do or what i can do. I'm a media development student right now, but i've also got a degree in IT management already. But they ask me to DESIGN banner etc. in Photoshop. Although i'm not really an artist or a designer, it's nice to be appreciated for my work in that field, but that also made me see that he doesn't really know what i can do.
thanks for being brave enough to share this.
I agree press pause from time to time.
You are my geek hero man; and now, you're one of my depression heroes as well.
When i played poker there were times where the expectations to perform became so overwhelming that it became an emotional / mental drain... Even during winning months. This lead to me taking much needed sanity-breaks for extended peroids of time to get out of the muck (no pun intended) and find the motivation on the other side.
Fast forward to age 30, w/ the years of the poker boom behind me and nothing but a it of savings, retail experience and a stale hs diploma, i decided that full-time (as in year round) employment might not even be possible. IT sounds appealing. Taking on projects w/ a team, then doing freelance work...
I've gotten a lot closer to finding the right profession (it in a contractor role) and lifestyle the last few years of traveling , taking personal risks.
if i can add or reitterate anything from this vid, it is to take accountability for the things you can control. I also have add as well (never diagnosed but my brother had it and my dad showed symptoms) as anxiety / depression (was dx'd at 17).. why wait any longer to imporove my life?
Thank you so much for this insightful talk. I'm glad I found your channel. Excellent content!
Good video. I agree IT is stressful because we have to make people with different character satisfied in different way for the same product or same solution we provide.
I had experience when a client had a big fight for almost a week to get his MacPro replaced stating DVD burner is slow and guess what when we gave him new one he is like "So all the Mac Pro burn same speed , Hmmm , didn't know that"
I had a client he planned to source his friend as IT contractor and when his CEO approves us , trust me each and every installation and items we delivered to him had issue and he he fiddled with the configurations.
Anyways as you told we have to motivate ourself and take break as and when needed or we will phase out quickly.
There seems to be a way bigger positive side to this. When you're irreplaceable, it gives you pride, it gives you advantage, it gives you security.
are you working? I used to be a tech with AT&T and miss it, working with customers and solving problems. I think us tech people have active minds and need to be busy.
Thank you for this video.
Eli, you are a lifesaver. No I'm not exaggerating.
If modern day geeks were all crammed into one human body, Eli would be the resulting life form. Seriously man, you help in more ways than one. Love watching your videos, and if you EVER come to Ohio, more specifically the Akron area, believe that I'll be the one fighting to the front of the line. Enjoy your time off Eli, you absolutely deserve it.
I really like watching your video channel. I thank you about covering depression. I totally feel like you explained how I feel sometimes, and I know it sounds lame, but now I know Im not the only person, who feels like I do. I appreciate you covering this in your videos. Respect.
this is one of the best but the most underated channal (i guess,as i would like to see many many more likes and views for this guy)
i came across on youtube. YOU ARE THE BEST ELI!!!
Ravi Jha
He just has particularly long videos without much entertainment and he says he never set out to be popular on youtube.
I would say it is pretty good reception.
+Oreki Houtarou his videos are not meant to be entertaining my friend. extra bit of entertainment is a bonus which people dont acknowledge.
Ravi Jha
In that case his videos aren't meant to be popular.
Depression comes in many flavors. Be careful and avoid the sour one. One technique I use for "the blues" is to listen to Jim Oliver's music here in youtube. It works for me.
That took guts Eli. Kudos. I hope you are feeling back to yourself soon.
Eli the Computer Guy, and all other Computer Guys/Gals who might be reading this....I have something very important to tell you all, something that many IT professionals, as well as many other walks of life, may have either forgotten or just dismissed out of our lives in general. Sometimes we get so caught up in our worldly problems and we think we have it all figured out without realizing what's truly important and how little we actually know. I think it'd be extremely helpful if we took a step back from modern syntax and program languages to understand that we too have a code that we need to follow if we wish to protect our minds from error overload. Many people in IT and Technical/Nerdy professions forget or choose to not believe that this whole entire earth, all lifeforms, and all of the heavens in space were too designed by God Almighty, and that God cares and loves each and every one of us as children of His. This is why God sent his one and only Son to die on the cross for our sins. Jesus loves us all and the only thing He wants from us is that we turn away from the world and its troubles and take His hand so that we can have everlasting life with Him in Heaven. I pray that depressed people turn to Jesus, He is the Greatest System Reboot for us all.
Jesus Loves You! Amen.
Looked for this topic everywhere couldnt find anything! Please do an update vid for covid and this new world! How do you think the "untouchable" tech world will fare? How about newbies getting into Tech in the 2020-2021 year?
Meditation Works learn to do it right and learn how to fully control of both your emotions and your thoughts. Helped me and everyone else that has ever written a book about it.
I thought I committed blasphemy for many years while I was in IT. I was working in IT Security and was constantly thinking I was going straight to hell. It def affected my thinking and work ethic.
This is very important topic. I been programming for 10 years now, and I start to feel a bit like that ! I need some motivation or something...
Surfing is such a great metaphor for consulting!
Great video, keeping it real and sharing some helpful steps to take.
Things will get better sir just keep you're head up and we all love you and here for you (nomo) ... :)
Hey, Eli. You keep looking over your shoulder 'hearing the footsteps' and changing your shows. Your tutorials undoubtedly helped people who found the texts that you consulted obscure or obtuse. Often, when we not-so-technical consult a text, one badly worded explanation can cause a lot of wasted time and even failure that another source will make clear. And your videos have undoubtedly broken that blockage for many. Your live shows had the same usefulness with the added feature of a live response. The directness of your latest format is good and short is sweet with complicated subjects. As a non professional who likes to know what's going on in the tech world I know that I am not in your targeted audience. But I understand enough of what you talk about to keep listening. Keep at it.(Sorry that I won't be patronizing any of your high tech sponsors. )
I don’t agree that tech workers are more important than other jobs or more stressful. Try to be a waitress, chef or a health care worker. Seems like crappy jobs but incredibly stressful. I think geeks just overthink and overanalyze everything which works in favour of their jobs but in real life this creates so much unhappiness. Staring at screens for more than 8 hours is super bad for your mental health too. You would have to make sure you spend the rest of your time being physically active or out with friends to create a balanced life style. But geeks in general don’t believe in spirituality, motivation speeches, meditation or yoga and it makes it much harder to solve their mental health issues.
Great video, Eli. This really speaks to me. Thanks.
Anyone with ‘depression’ (which is actually one symptom of a whole symptom picture) should go to a naturopath and do the gold standard of allergy and food intolerance tests which is the cheapest and most definitive test which is generally called the ‘elimination diet’ which is generally removing all the most common food allergens and sensitivities from the diet and only eating a limited number of foods for a specific period of time (say 3 wks) to clear the offending foods from the body and then specifically reintroducing the common allergens back into the diet one by one for 3 days at a time to see if that food causes a biological imbalance in some way and writing down the time and severity of symptoms relative to time food was consumed, if it does then it should be permanently removed or at least eaten in small amounts or failing that eaten knowing there will be fallout but that it is in your control
Often the foods that trigger depression are often foods that you find the hardest to stop eating and are effectively addictive for you...which is often the biggest clue to which one/s are likely the culprits
This is the cheapest way to test for dietary variables to biological imbalance, the easier routes such such biological tests are more expensive and not as reliable, for instance an allergy test will only show known protein structures that your immune system is attacking as if it was a foreign invader within the body, but does not show that for example improperly digested gluten molecules are slipping through the intestinal wall of that specific person due to excessive permeability (only amino acids should be absorbed by a healthy intestinal wall) and some of which are attaching to receptor sites in the brain if they happen to have a similar structure as the chemicals those sites are designed to receive...yet no gluten allergy is found from standard methods
Food is a variable that should be eliminated as a cause imo
thank u for being real my brotha
I hear you guy. I took a permanent exit and started a brand new thing in a different industry. But I still dabble. Its in my blood.
Why has it been allowed to say for the last 30 years or so when you are on the phone with someone that is operating some form of computer to identify you or get details about why you called them, "my computer is operating slow today". Are the same people at every individual place I call buying the equipment, configuring the network, training the workers? Why has "my computer is working slow today" become such a common phrase for so long?
spot on. I seem to have ups and downs in regards to even wanting to continue IT. Some days, I am really gung ho and want to learn every damn think on the internet,redo our entire infrastructure, and build an IT empire... and other days, I could care less about tech and am just about ready to quit. My coping mech is... ah damit. i dont even know... is that bad?
HEY Eli, thx for all your IT, IS, technological goobble dee goo stuff videos/vlogs. its all very helpful. BUT, this is your most MEANINGFUL vid/vlog. let's face it, what good is all this high tech, mucky muck stuff IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET OUT OF BED AND FACE THE DAY. what you are saying here is the real stuff of life, the tech thingies in the other vids/vlogs are just fascinating tidbits we have dredged out of this perceived reality matrix. keep up the good work and more power to you.
I never thought of getting mental advice from IT professional LMAO :')
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Well Eli the way that you explain stuff is awesome understood it very clearly thanks man real peoples people have a awesome day.
i suffer this eli aswell called the downers and i have panic attacks its depression
Amazing vids! Way to go!!
Thank you very, very much for making this video.
If you think you're going crazy, look me up when you get there and I'll show you around.
Thanks for having the balls to post this video Eli. It's also great that you talked about setting boundaries with other parties and putting your own well-being first.
TY AGAIN FOR YOUR ADVICE.... YOUR THE MAN
Good suggestion
Spot on!! Great video and advice!!