Zak Storey, a very brave and honorable young man, talks about his depression [View all]

Last edited Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:08 PM - Edit history (12)

THIS IS THE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUP. Abrasive and unkind comments are not welcome here.


This is all in my print (dead tree) edition of Maximum PC magazine, March 2018.

He's a deputy editor of the magazine, probably 20's to maybe early 30's if I had to guess. Caucasian guy (if I had to guess from his small photo), as many in the tech industry are.

I am going to copy as much manually as I can from my magazine shortly, but long story short, he openly admits to the world that yes, a bright young man such as he, with a good job etc, has clinical depression and he's had it for a long time. He's going to get away from his computer for a while to enjoy nature and other great things to help his depression.

It is 2018 and yes, anyone with a great brain and a great heart knows that we all, men and women, can suffer from depression, either one episode or many or a lifetime. The stats I've seen say that women suffer more from it than men, but the problem is that it is still seen as very "unmanly" for a man to openly admit depression (man up dude, grow some balls, stop whining, etc etc etc). So, the vast majority of men would rather just shut up and suffer or drink or self-medicate with their drug of choice or.....kill themself ultimately.

Things are better now than 10, 20, 30 years ago, but this whole myth of masculine toughness needs to die. As in yesterday. We men suffer and bleed just as women do.

Much respect to you, Zak, and I hope you get zero to very little crap for your honesty.


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Page 92 of the dead tree Maximum PC magazine for March 2018