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talks about what she's seeing, eating, watching, and reading in the wellness world and beyond. Pro tip: If youYesterday we published an essay from, about her decision to walk away from the successful company she’d run since she was in college. She wrote:
I have depression, but I didn’t know that I had depression. The most important part of the previous sentence is that I didn’t know that I had depression. My life as an entrepreneur had not left space for me to think seriously about my mental health. And that’s what I want to talk about, how in the mythology of entrepreneurship—the intoxicating idea that you can build things and start things and be liberated from a “normal” day job—can bring on and normalize feelings of loneliness and stress.
This mythology Yang talks about—the disconnect between what you think a job should look like and what it actually entails—is powerful, and it can happen in just about any career. When I was a freelance journalist, I expected to have multiple stories in the works at any given time, all of which would pay for my Brooklyn rent, my natural-wine-buying habit, and an occasional vacation.For years I clung to this expectation, and I felt like a failure a lot of the time.
For Yang, being raised by immigrant parents in a low-income home only made her expectations higher and the stakes feel greater. And it gave her a scarcity mindset—a sense that her work, her money, her business would never be enough—that she struggled to overcome. I’m really glad that Yang chose to write publicly about this struggle, because I think talking about it—on the internet, with your therapist, with friends, to your dog—is probably one of the best ways to reconcile your expectations with reality. And that’s probably a really helpful thing to do for your mental health.
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