Re:Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code
by mattdeboard on Saturday May 28, 2011 @06:39PM
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I was similar until I got a prescription for Adderall. That worked for me. Not saying it works for everyone but treating my "overactive brain" with Adderall has changed my life, 100% for the better.
This is a really common symptom of adult ADD/ADHD. I highly recommend the book Driven to Distraction. It helped me make sense of a lot of aspects of my life that I just couldn't understand before.
http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Recognizing-Attenti...
The thing that has helped me, as stated before, is alcohol. It allows me to concentrate and just get code down. Now do I think that is good for me and or my body? No. I would rather have my full brain capacity to work just as hard, I want to be able to focus on one task.
That is why I was asking if other people had found the same, and what they were doing about it, or how they were solving the problem.