Hi, as the title says I’m a new developer and some days ago I was diagnosed. My diagnose journey started because I’m unable to be consistent (That’s not something new) and it is making me really depressed.

I just spend all day doing nothing and some day I just write most of what I have should written. Some days I force myself to code just to see all letters as blurry meaningless symbols and then I come back to square one where I procrastinate. Now I’m working from home, but when I go to office this gets 10 times worse.

I will be making an appointment to get medications soon, but does anyone have some additional ways to fight this?

EDIT: Thanks everyone that responded the call for help! To people that resonate with this post, please read these comments, all of them are really useful.

Update: All this post started because of a deadline i was having serious problems to reach.

If you are in the same spot as a new dev: What happened to me was that I was facing a really complex issue in which we lacked a lot of information and when I started to ask some key questions everything started to flow again, my main blocker was communication.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I should have focused on understanding rather than trying to solve.

  • PhantaminumOP
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    8 months ago

    I understand what you mean by meetings blocking you to start your progress. I work the best when I have 1 meeting and can solve doubts by just chatting. It seems that yesterday I was facing an issue that no one really understood and I wasn’t an exception, so perhaps that was the reason why I was overwhelmed and couldn’t code anything.

    Thanks for reaching to my SOS post!