Excellent perception that sometimes depression isn’t caused by some chemical imbalance or childhood trauma. Life is often just hard, and sometimes you’re going to act like an jerk to try to cope. I’m not perfect, I suspect you’re not either.

Getting something accomplished is key for me, code-wise that might mean I write a script in 10 minutes to pull weather data from an api, or an image from NASA. Keeping the task small lets me get a positive shot before I can burn out.

I have to break project sized work into smaller mini projects, or I get intimidated. I accept that I’m weak and easily distracted, I guess I’m treating myself like a child. Who cares as long as it works?

I also let people take advantage of my agreeableness. Only solution I’ve found is to change jobs every couple years.