I feel so useless

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jneul said:

yeah i have friends an i have had this conversation out before i though it would be better to go for something simple after what happened, because i literraly lost who i was after i left my programming job (it sounds sad i know), i lost all my confidence and passion and basically even my love for programming has dwindled into nothingness, i really don't even understand it.

so far i have tried a training course which renewed my confidence in myself as a person, but alot of the things i used to be able to do are simply missing now, i just don't know where to start, and i dare not do my Bsc in computing, because honestly i feel like my skills are not good enough anymore

maybe i should see a psychiatrist lol, it's something i am sure i will not understand by myself

The skills aren't missing. They are still there within you but it is your mental state which prevents you from being able to use them. I used to think that I had a sucky sense of direction and that I couldn't find my way out of a wet paper bag. Nowadays after I dealt with a few things my friends say I have an amazing sense of direction even in places and cities I have never been before whereas before I would get lost driving across a 140,000 size city I had lived in almost all my life.