So I've been down recently and unable to find the motivation to code. Today I woke up felt motivated, turned on my Desktop... then got distracted by games and wasted my day. Hope tomorrow goes better.

I have a similar issue, I have hardcore ADHD and anxiety. It makes it really difficult to get the motivation to start or even continue anything.

@sheeponmeth ditto

With some nice depressions coming and going (usually staying tho), this perfectly describes my life

Before sitting down with a blank editor to start a project, try planning it out in pen and paper away from the computer.

It clarifies things in your mind and creates a clear path from here to there, giving you a road-map of smaller tasks that you can dedicate short periods of time to.

I do this a lot mid-project too when I bump into a tricky problem that could have me spinning my wheels. It helps me come up with a new approach to the problem.

maybe it'll work for you? 👍🏻

I'm with you friend! I have ADD and sometimes feel the same. But for me the editor is rather the white rabbits hole and if i fall in, it takes a while to get back to the real world. I quite often dream about solutions of my problems. So just try to find your passion in coding again! :)

it happens to me every Sunday night when you figure out that the whole weekend has been wasted...

@pixeltherapy sometimes I have to do that mid-project too in order to prevent myself from going down rabbit holes. I start thinking about all the "what ifs" and "this would be cool" and if I'm not careful, one day I'll look at my code and think "wait... what was the original purpose of this?" 😑

I understand you, guys.

What solved part of it for me was this:
I started working in the living room, in the dinner table, or anywhere outside of bedrooms. My brain has tied my room to sleeping and procrastinating, I always leave the window half closed there and is quite dark.
I know it's hard. But if you have a notebook, use it somewhere else. This helped my productivity a lot. The problem still is my notebook is not as powerful as my desktop, doesn't have Two monitors, so I feel incomplete, but it helped a lot anyway.
I don't take it seriously until the day I did and learned it was so true.

@Swifticus I do that all the time :) git branches are great for those tangents!

@henseiderv nice advise, thank you

Try doing a 30 days coding challenge and share how it goes everyday here. I tried something similar for creative arts and worked me wonders. Happy coding

@ahmedam I like the idea!

@ahmedam going to try that starting tomorrow

@pixeltherapy you're not wrong.

@iceman If you never had any of those things you don't know what the feeling is, and you don't know how much it Hurts to hear that. It's so much harder then it looks, but I never understood it until I've felt into one of those holes... unfortunately.

@iceman When I get anxiety there are actual physiological symptoms, my hands get weak and numb, it feels like I have electricity in my shoulders. It prevents me from doing things I enjoy. It's not not wanting to do something, it's like having someone cut the oxygen flow to your passions and the harder you try to push through it, the more it suffocates you.

@iceman My entire PhD is out of my comfort zone, that's where I feel most challenged and determined to achieve. My depression and anxiety are definitely not from the feeling of not wanting to be challenged.

@iceman you kinda sound like a good number of people that I have met in my life. Like someone pointed out earlier, you don't know what it is until you have it. People will say things like 'you just need to stop being lazy and start doing stuff' or 'you never want to make an effort'.
This is the biggest pile of bullcrap that I have ever heard in my entire live and it's something that can really piss me off since it is not true. When you are depressed it's not like you don't want to do anything (there are a lot of times were I really wanted to be productive and kickass) but you simply can't. You are held down by everything and comments like that only make you like a bigger ass since you start doubting yourself. You'll start believing that it's true and your self image will crash down even further.

But there is nothing against you, you simply don't know what it's like.