The Most Difficult Refactoring of My Career
summary
A developer recounts a career derailment into clinical depression and burnout after delivering about 100 conference talks in roughly a year, causing loss of creativity and noise hypersensitivity. Recovery combined medication trials (fluoxetine, mirtazapine, duloxetine), therapy, daily mood tracking and the Maslach Burnout Inventory, plus a nine-month break and small personal projects (a Launchpad music/code toy called Grillades) that helped restore motivation to resume coding and freelance work.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00The most difficult refactoring of my career
- 0:25Who is Jérôme PETAZZONI?
- 1:23The challenge of depression
- 1:50The plan
- 5:331 in 5 people suffer from a mental disorder
- 6:23How does the brain work?
- 7:35How did it manifest?
- 10:15How did preparing a talk go?
- 18:33How to take care of yourself?
- 22:04How to manage burnout?
- 27:14What I wish I had known before?
- 29:09Conclusion
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