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Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by dabockster on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:09PM (#17275016)
The point about seeking professional help is super underrated. Just in the past few months, I would have entered a similar thread on HN to see the OP being brigaded by posts telling him/her to always be coding and to just chug along. This kind of talk completely ignores other issues that may be present and can cause even further damage.
Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by irundebian on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:32PM (#17275123)
You're completely right. If you're really that suffering that you're burning out or getting otherwise mentally ill, getting professional help is probably the best thing you can do.

I assume it's because there is a bias on technology-focused communities such as HN. The bias of solving problems with technologies (be it languages, books, life hacks, ...), even if the problems are of a social or psychological nature.

You can't solve all problems with technology.

Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by mooreds on Saturday June 09, 2018 @08:31PM (#17275775)
If I were to enter a complicated transaction without consulting a lawyer (raising funding for example) people would say I was crazy.

Yet somehow we think we should be able to work out personal issues (burnout, marriage issues, depression, etc) by ourselves. It's bizarre.

If you can afford help, get it. If you can't, often you can get a discount (sliding scale) or work something out.

Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eb0la on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:14PM (#17278772)
It is not bizzare: we are used to do stuff other people cannot think to do...

... Like if it was a superpower.

Superheroes doesn't need advice. At least in the comics I read as a kid.

So this superhero syndrome, hurts more than having no superpower at all.

Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by mooreds on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:45AM (#17283453)
Fair enough. I wrote a blog post once about the arrogance of software developers[0]. So I get your point that sometimes because we can do one kind of hard thing, we think we can do most any type of hard thing. But we're wrong.

0. http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/134

Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eeZah7Ux on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:27PM (#17280518)
> stuff other people cannot think to do

What are you talking about?

Re:Ask HN: Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion... by eb0la on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:04AM (#17282370)
A lot if people has trouble with computers, technology, etc.

If you're able to understand or at least start troubleshooting computer relates stuff, you look like you hace a superpower to them.