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The Unspoken Emotional Cost of Being an Entrepreneur

"Are entrepreneurs touched with fire?” asked Michael A. Freeman, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco, in a study he co-authored in 2015, which analyzed the relationship between entrepreneurship and mental health. The paper opens with an image of Aaron Swartz, the young co-founder of Reddit and the creator of RSS, who hanged himself in 2013 after years of grappling with depression.

Successful entrepreneurs achieve hero status in American culture. We regularly celebrate the illusion of overnight success, with headlines applauding how much money a startup raised and how quickly it grew. But with so many entrepreneurs feeling compelled to fake it till you make it, not everyone makes it out unscathed, especially when it comes to mental health. I know this from firsthand experience - founding my own startup left me exhausted and unhappy. Though I've since been able to adapt to the stress of running a company without persistent mental anguish, I know there are many others who suffer quietly.

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