I want to make it clear to the high altitude astronomy community: We are not friends.

Out of a group of eight extreme night shift workers, I was aware of four workers who appeared to be displaying symptoms of depression. That is fifty percent of the team. That number may be higher if you include those that were already on successful depression treatment and were not publicly showing the symptoms.

I started showing depression symptoms shortly after my very high altitude coworker stated that they were experiencing gender issues.

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the management team were always saying that everyone was part of the ohana (family). When I got sick and needed essential surgery, they outcast me from the ohana. I concluded that the company ohana was a sham.

There was no history of mental illness in my family for people in their thirties, so it was very surprising when I developed it.

There are no doubts that I am the sickest member of my family and that illness showed up during working in the biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy.

The closer you get to the Sun, the higher the levels of radiation become.

The closer you get to the Sun, the lower your blood oxygen levels go.

LASER spotters were employed to visually monitor air traffic in the vicinity of the high powered LASER beam. The were typically young students and aged people that would take these temporary very high altitude jobs for some extra money. Some would become irritable as the night progressed. As far as I know, there has never been any long term monitoring of these people for health issues stemming from nighttime industrial LASER exposure or oxygen starvation.