Re: A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading - http://moz.com/rand...
"We're not close but I've talked with you enough and watched you long enough to have noticed that you were ... unhappy for some time. But as an acquaintance it's bloody difficult to do anything about that. "Hey Rand, why so serious?" Yeah, that's not going to happen. So I was happy when you stepped down as CEO because you seemed ... lighter. I didn't really care what it meant to Moz. I just knew that someone who I thought was smart and generous had gotten rid of that dark rainy cloud following him around. Like @Will Critchlow seeing you blog about this makes me feel like you're healing. Now, I don't know if I've ever been depressed. I had a breakdown in 2003 after my wife had a miscarriage and being severely unhappy being in the fallback job I took during the dot bomb nuclear winter - literally sobbing uncontrollably at work. And I totally get the mindset of magnifying the negatives and rationalizing away the positives. I did it (and still do to some extent) for years. My employment..." - AJ Kohn