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I knew a guy who had a similar breakdown because of personal life issues.

Should the take-away be to not have a personal life?

What a silly article and a silly reason to not just take personal responsibility for the work-life balance that you choose.



I knew a guy who overdosed on pills and died. Should the take-away be to not overdose on pills?

Yes, yes it should. Overworking is bad, don't do it. Having a shitty personal life is bad too, try not to do that either.


"overworking" is the new boogeyman.

Rather than encouraging people to make deliberate, healthy choices to find a work-life balance that achieves the goals they want to achieve, we see simplistic articles like this trying to pin someone's (very possibly) pre-existing mental health issues on their work life as though everyone needs to take more vacation.

Working hard has its place in the path of people who want business success.


WTF? This article is exactly about making healthy choices and work-life balance. You make it sound like overworking and vacation have nothing to do with healthy choices and work-life balance.




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