{"slug": "ask-hn-depression", "title": "Ask HN: Depression", "summary": "A Hacker News user posted about depression and mental exhaustion caused by substance abuse, overworking, poor sleep, and AI usage, asking for advice from others who have experienced similar struggles.", "body_md": "I stopped caring about my job a while ago. I’ve become somewhat numb and withdrawn due to a mix of substance abuse, overworking, poor sleep and poor cognition habits due to AI usage.\n\nFor those who have gone through this mental exhaustion, what has helped?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509461](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509461)\n\nPoints: 3\n\n# Comments: 4", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-depression", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509461", "published_at": "2026-06-12 21:11:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 21:45:18.816060+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-depression", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-depression.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-depression.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-depression.jsonld"}}