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| | | | Novian Cahyadi (X) 
Local time: 06:35
Is it just me, or the poll questions are getting more and more personal?
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I don't take any medication to manage stress.
P.S. My best stress therapy has been to never bite off more than I can chew…
[Edited at 2025-07-05 10:00 GMT]
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I once had to talk to an elderly man to complete my medical for an organization. He asked if I had depression. I said yes, I was depressed in my time when I parted ways with my girlfriend. He said oh, that's life. He didn't speak any English, so I had to stretch my French to make myself understood. Later on, I answered the same questions when speaking to a Chinese-looking young man. He inferred that I was a depressive type and didn't bother to seek medical attention to get rid of my depression. ... See more I once had to talk to an elderly man to complete my medical for an organization. He asked if I had depression. I said yes, I was depressed in my time when I parted ways with my girlfriend. He said oh, that's life. He didn't speak any English, so I had to stretch my French to make myself understood. Later on, I answered the same questions when speaking to a Chinese-looking young man. He inferred that I was a depressive type and didn't bother to seek medical attention to get rid of my depression. That's when I found out that people in the West consider depression to be a condition that needs to be treated with medication. Ladies and gentlemen, I come from Soviet Russia! We don't do it this way over here. P. S.: Whatever I wrote only relates to people from my generation. Don't know how Gen Z and beyond do their thing ▲ Collapse
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IrinaN (X)
Америка Құрама Штаттары
Local time: 18:35
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| Only business, nothing personal | Jul 5, 2025 |
Denis Fesik wrote:
West consider depression to be a condition that needs to be treated with medication.
Americans are fed anti-depressants by a coal shovel. Good money...
With the for-profit health care (and penitentiary system), a free healthy American leisurely passing by is but a lost business opportunity
| | | | Lingua 5B
Босния мен Герцеговина
Local time: 01:35
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| Personal questions… | Jul 5, 2025 |
Taking medication to manage stress is like treating the symptom, not the root cause. You need better food, better sleep, better social life. Medications can’t provide that.
Don’t know about Gen Z. We used to have to go out, endure shame, endure stress, endure peer pressure, and then eventually reach homeostasis. Today they just skip all these steps by going online/on TikTok without ever processing anything.
Finance questions, personal life questions, perhaps next ti... See more Taking medication to manage stress is like treating the symptom, not the root cause. You need better food, better sleep, better social life. Medications can’t provide that.
Don’t know about Gen Z. We used to have to go out, endure shame, endure stress, endure peer pressure, and then eventually reach homeostasis. Today they just skip all these steps by going online/on TikTok without ever processing anything.
Finance questions, personal life questions, perhaps next time consider sexual life and health edition? “Stress” medications lead to erectile dysfunction, it’s a scientific fact. You thought you could get something without a price to pay? Tough luck happiness pills, tough luck.
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| | | | Mario Chávez
Америка Құрама Штаттары
Local time: 19:35
English to Spanish
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| Thank you, Proz … | Jul 5, 2025 |
…for giving me another reason not to renew my subscription. Your polls are getting personal and incompetent, sometimes simultaneously.
MC
| | | | | Personal questions | Jul 5, 2025 |
I don’ mind at all personal questions. You always have the right to make no reply or simply walk away. What I do mind are questions badly formulated or even worse filled with typos or grammatical errors. Every time it happens my trust on Proz is affected…
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Mario Chávez
Америка Құрама Штаттары
Local time: 19:35
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I think it goes beyond what some of us mind or don't mind. Any bit of data we post on a website is liable to be scraped by bots for all sorts of purposes, most of them nefarious. The least amount of personal data I fill in in any kind of website, no matter how legitimate, the better I am.
MC
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I don’ mind at all personal questions. You always have the right to make no reply or simply walk away. What I do mind are questions badly formulated or even worse filled with typos or grammatical errors. Every time it happens my trust on Proz is affected…
| | | | Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Коста Рика
Local time: 17:35
Member (Oct 2026)
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| No, thanks to God! | Jul 5, 2025 |
I try to meditate with the word of God and pray. I also try to have healthy eating habits and walk for almost 2 hours a week. Being thankful and finding your purpose or meaning in your life is fundamental to overcome the problems and manage them better.
Stress is excess of present, so you are overthinking o doing many tasks at the same time. You just need to take a breath, believe that everything is fine and will be fine, then continue doing your tasks one by one. Do not forget to ... See more I try to meditate with the word of God and pray. I also try to have healthy eating habits and walk for almost 2 hours a week. Being thankful and finding your purpose or meaning in your life is fundamental to overcome the problems and manage them better.
Stress is excess of present, so you are overthinking o doing many tasks at the same time. You just need to take a breath, believe that everything is fine and will be fine, then continue doing your tasks one by one. Do not forget to do exercise and talk to people because they are gold mines. Remember, God loves you as well!
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| | | | Siobhán Fulton
Америка Құрама Штаттары
Local time: 19:35
German to English
| Do alcohol or cannabis count? | Jul 5, 2025 |
Asking for a friend.
| | | | Zea_Mays
Италия
Local time: 01:35
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| Most polls are not from ProZ | Jul 5, 2025 |
Mario Chávez wrote:
…Your polls are getting personal and incompetent, sometimes simultaneously.
Polls are usually proposed by members and most proponents opt to stay anonymous.
The real issue is that ProZ poll answers are not anonymous — they haven't yet managed to implement a system that allows for it.
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Novian Cahyadi (X)
Local time: 06:35
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I don’ mind at all personal questions. You always have the right to make no reply or simply walk away.
True. That's what I've been doing with all those AI-related polls. But that wasn't my point. In the previous poll asking about our financial situation, someone deleted their post after Zea warned us all that it might not be prudent to tell the entire world about it. The hope was to prevent people from making the same blunder.
And sure, you can blame them for lacking common sense. But IMHO, asking a personal question like this in a public forum to begin with is rather unethical. How'd you feel if a random stranger approaches you in the supermarket and asks, “Ma'am, are you taking drugs?”
P.S. I'm not judging anyone taking medications to manage their stress. You do you.
[Diedit pada 2025-07-06 05:11 GMT]
| | | | | What kind of medication? | Jul 7, 2025 |
What makes this question weirder than just the topic is the assumption that there's medication for work-related stress. Anti-depressants were mentioned here, but depression is not the same thing as stress. There are beta blockers for performance anxiety, and benzodiazepines for anxiety disorders, but I don't think that's the kind of stress we're facing either.
Then there are Silicon Valley types 'microdosing' psychedelics or ketamine, or...
Siobhán Fulton wrote:
Do alcohol or cannabis count?
Asking for a friend.
Those are the natural alternatives they included as an option.
[Edited at 2025-07-08 06:03 GMT]
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Novian Cahyadi wrote:
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I don’ mind at all personal questions. You always have the right to make no reply or simply walk away.
True. That's what I've been doing with all those AI-related polls. But that wasn't my point. In the previous poll asking about our financial situation, someone deleted their post after Zea warned us all that it might not be prudent to tell the entire world about it. The hope was to prevent people from making the same blunder.
And sure, you can blame them for lacking common sense. But IMHO, asking a personal question like this in a public forum to begin with is rather unethical. How'd you feel if a random stranger approaches you in the supermarket and asks, “Ma'am, are you taking drugs?”
P.S. I'm not judging anyone taking medications to manage their stress. You do you. [Diedit pada 2025-07-06 05:11 GMT]
That's why I usually vote the N/A option without any comment, because it is much more polite than commenting what I think (which is “ain't your f*#king business!”).
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