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.

  • PhantaminumOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Damn, I don’t know where to start this response.

    -First, I didn’t know that “the real devil” was so good giving advice. Where I live we have a saying that translates like “More knows the devil by old than by being the devil”, so your experiences and conclusions are appreciated.

    -I haven’t been medicated yet, so I will have your advice in mind regarding to that. Also I don’t really know if Adderall is a thing where I live.

    -Categorizing things by mood needed is something that I haven’t heard of, but is so clear now. All my life I have ridded waves of motivation, but I have never planned to do it in advance.

    -I’m already on therapy so that’s like my “sprint review” to check if an habit is sticking, for me agile has been a good framework to try habits and new approaches.

    -As a last point, I’m a developer but as you, I guess that I’m an artist, a writer and whatever I’m feeling like in the moment.

    I really appreciate you took time to write this comment, thanks!

    EDIT: formatting.