Biz Daily: Games industry and mental illness

we've come a long way in terms of how we talk about mental health social media campaigns and being launched and some of the more insidious illnesses of the minds employers are being given help on how to support employees that could be suffering from illnesses such as depression and depression itself hasn't been treated as a form of demonic possession since the Babylonian period and yet today's biz daily is about a series of tweets that a man sent about his mental health and the driving maybe a backlash that they sparked Markus notch persson is a new billionaire who founded mojang created minecraft and then sold it all to Microsoft for 2.5 billion dollars it's not exactly pocket cash and with that he fought was 70 million pound month or dollar mansion in Beverly Hills so he kind of has the life that everyone could dream of having he's

created a game that's become so popular and might as well be pre-installed on all smartphone devices and has more money than you can dream of having but in a series of tweets he revealed that he's not exactly happy with the lot that he's been given so what did you say the first tweet Reds that the problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance he followed that up with hanging out and I be thur with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people able to do whatever I want and yeah I've never felt more isolated he added that in Sweden I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families watching my reflection in the monitor to me it sounds like to me it sounds like not she's going through that feeling that you get when you're playing sims and you just strike mother

lode too many times the cat rolls in and suddenly it's like the life that you've been creating a stripped of all meaning all talent and all fun it's that classic cliché of what do you give the man who's got everything and it kind of sounds from these tweets that person is also thinking as a man with everything what do I give others now the issue is that some reports have made fun of notch men to beat ran a story saying that we've seen Twitter freak outs before but this one is for the books presumably while shifting comfortably in their seats and stuff in their mouths full of popcorn the article and others like it suggests that really all much is doing is asking for attention humble bragging you know he's had his cake now just eat it rich people can't be depressed or be unhappy with what they've got but last time I checked depression doesn't tend to strike indiscriminately it doesn't check the size in your bank balance the size of your house or how successful you've been in the past before coming knocking at your door if not should written a

series of tweets describing his experiences of I don't know epilepsy or diabetes or another physical illness people would turn around and scoff over he's rich how can he be suffering quick flick through these headlines and responses and it suddenly becomes clear that our approach to mental health isn't always well healthy now don't get me wrong I'm not sitting here diagnosing not with anything I'm not a mental health expert and I'm not turning around saying that he is mentally ill but it's kind of clear that after a roller coaster a few years he's suffering some sort of emotional whiplash he's got this new space of wealth is falling on him and he's not really sure how to deal with it and he's reaching out asking for help but I'm sitting here reading these reports and wondering whatever happened to journalistic impartiality the van should be or thurs said in his article that he probably shouldn't make lights of persons problems and yet he turns around and says in a very judgmental tone that there's something superficial about a

relatively rich and famous person spilling out his problems in 140 character blast all his fans and followers on Twitter with such a sneering voice the author blasts through any shred of sensitivity like antibiotics and kills all empathy supports and tact in his reporting now not just known for being quite straightforward in his approach and kind of sharing what it is he's thinking and just because you're rich and famous doesn't mean that you can't struggle with inner demons or have things that you really need to get off your chest in fact it's refreshing to have someone of not just standing stand up and yell into the void that no he isn't perfect no he doesn't have everything and no he doesn't have all the answers and no he's not truly happy I've been to so many conferences where people have stood up on stage and really dissected and drilled down and so what exactly could be that secret ingredient that made minecraft so successful and how can we emulate the grass is always greener on the other side well maybe it isn't and

for not just stood up made himself vulnerable and really challenged that absorption and subverted it into something new we should be applauding him not sneering at him from behind our screens well that's just my opinion but what do you think do you think that notch was right to stand up and draw attention to how he was feeling or really you got about it in a different way let us know in the comments section below and in the meantime we'll see you on the next video