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

    I’m reading these responses again and let me tell you that writing tthings down has helped me a ton!

    Also, that computer analogy was really nice. Thanks to take time and help me (and anyone that arrives to this post!)

    • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      No problem. I was planning on giving one or two pieces of advice when I started writing that but half way through realized it was a nice way for me to organize my thoughts and I kept going and it turned into an essay.

      And it’s happening again, so I’ll elaborate: Having conversations and actually wording things to other people instead of having unclear thoughts running through your head is great. I often see people saying stupid shit and start typing a reply, but then I start seeing their point or realize that their opinion is so far away from mine that I can’t find any common ground to argue on and delete my half-written comment. I used to think I was just wasting time on the internet, but I’m starting to realize that the act of writing it down was putting order into the mess in my head.