Does anyone actually talk about feeling lonely while building?

I've been sitting with something that feels hard to say out loud: building a startup can be genuinely lonely, and almost no one talks about it directly.

A 2025 survey of founders found that 72% experienced anxiety, burnout, or depression. But what struck me even more was this: only 12% turn to their investors for support. Most just hold it.

I think part of it is performance. There's this unspoken rule that founders need to project confidence and momentum, especially in spaces like this. You share wins, you post launches, you celebrate numbers. But the in-between parts, the slow weeks, the quiet doubt, the feeling of working on something you deeply believe in but nobody else really gets yet, that part tends to stay private.

I'm building Murror, an app to help young people feel less alone. And honestly, one of the things that pushed me toward this problem was realizing how isolated I felt as a builder myself. Not from a lack of people around me, but from a lack of people who truly understand what this kind of work feels like from the inside.

The PH community feels like one of the few places where it's at least possible to be real about this stuff.

So I'm curious: do you feel lonely while building? And if so, what's actually helped?