Chronic fatigue and burnout is a disease of most programmers. Get ready to fight depression if you work day and night on projects, actively interact with team members, customers, management, find time for self-education, and suffer from perfectionism.

How to deal with the most common professional developer crises and where to get the “happiness hormones”?

Helplessness

Depression from the consciousness of their own insolvency prevails mainly in newcomers who lack the knowledge and experience to solve ever more complex problems. The work is growing like a snowball, and the demand of the management to overcome bugs in the next program causes a feeling of complete despondency. Running away from problems by spending hours on Reddit is not at all an option.

Break a complex task into steps, refer to specialized literature or more experienced colleagues. You may have to resume learning programming languages, update or replenish knowledge. So you will become more confident and forget about helplessness.

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