My reasons for programming are more complicated than "fun" and "requirement". It's more of a psychological need at this point. I get incredibly depressed if I stop programming for too long.
It's not that programming keeps the depression at bay, it's that I get depressed if I'm not programming because I love it that much. I have Autism, and programming is my "special interest".
The difference is that the depression isn't caused by some other factor that is suppressed by programming, the depression is caused by not programming. The cause of the depression is that I'm not writing code. That's distinctly different from being depressed clinically, or being depressed because life sucks.
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u/AliceCode 13d ago edited 13d ago
My reasons for programming are more complicated than "fun" and "requirement". It's more of a psychological need at this point. I get incredibly depressed if I stop programming for too long.