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I don't think many people have my particular issue or at least not for the same reasons, but maybe it will help someone else:
For some background, I used to get confused sometimes, and forget things like which room I was just in, and not once in awhile, but minute to minute for hours. I'm on medication that among other things, helps with that, but lately, a less intense version of this has come up again over the past week or so.
It has prevented me from working. The people I work with are patient, but it has been over a week.
In the meantime, I've been writing an article about metacoding in C++, and that's forcing me to walk through what I'm doing as I'm explaining it, and giving me a good "cleanse" in terms of getting my head away from work.
And suddenly I'm surprising myself with what I'm creating. I'm not as efficient as usual, but I managed, through writing about coding to get to the point where I was actually coding.
And maybe this seems obvious, or maybe not. I don't know. It worked for me. I'm not at 100% but I might be able to work again now.
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honey the codewitch wrote: forcing me to walk through what I'm doing as I'm explaining it, and giving me a good "cleanse" in terms of getting my head away from work.
Not entirely surprising. Myself and some of my coworkers often find ourselves calling each other to explain a problem we're working on, trying to get some thoughts/inspiration, and the mere fact of taking a step back and explaining what we're doing is all that's needed to get things going - even without necessarily having given the other party a chance to say anything.
There's nothing wrong with you. 
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I often walk into a room and wonder why I'm there.
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In other words you believe in the here after. You enter a room and ask yourself "What am I here after?" 
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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You probably know of the "rubber duck school of debugging" - when stuck, you explain your problem to a rubber duck, and the act of explaining shows you where the bug must be. I suspect that writing an article on the subject works in a similar manner.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I find my cat to be a good and attentive listener except he is easily distracted.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Pssst, take Griff's cat, he does not have any weaknesses 
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Hah! He's a sucker for Dreamies, Chicken, BACON, Ham, Beef, Lamb, ... proper meat, of course. Cat food just doesn't get the same reaction. I swear he can smell me thinking of taking a ham out of the Cat Safe to run it through the meat slicer from half a Km away.
And he's a terrible fighter - as what remains of his ears will attest!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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My one cat Herb that I worked for  would take on any anything and lose - except for the usual defenceless little birds and mice.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OriginalGriff wrote: And he's a terrible fighter - as what remains of his ears will attest!
What matter for that attest is the shape of his opponents ears. 
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Pretty normal for a cat. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Rubber ducks never get distracted.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Have you read the second sentence in my signature?
Comes for something similar.
Sometimes the most effective / efficient way to learn something is to try to explain it to someone that knows even less than you
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sounds to me like you're working too hard - I had a high pressured job ( although I didn't realise it at the time ) in the city of London for 20 + years and suffered an intense burning sensation in my left side. I had every scan known to man , cameras in unmentionable places, blood tests you name it all found nothing wrong. About a month or so after the job finished a friend I hadn't seen for a while asked me how my pain was, I was so used to it I didn't really pay it any mind, then I realised it had gone. It rears it head now an again when I'm either stressed ( for good or bad reasons ) or locked into a problem coding ( like yourself ) I'm pretty much retired now so it doesn't matter much. Would I do things differently now ? NO. Just my 10 cents.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In a sense, you're right, I probably am working too hard (at least for where my head's at presently) but the confusion is most likely from me being schizoaffective. It has happened before, only much worse before I was medicated. Stress exacerbates my illness generally, but I only work part time as it is, and that's why. Still, if I can't even work part time it's a problem for me. Not financially, but not working creates its own problems for me, like lack of structure and feeling like I'm being useless. meh.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I know how you feel (not working creates its own problems for me, like lack of structure ) I've very recently finished a contract and given my age I doubt I'll land another one so I'll have to find something to keep me occupied for ever. Reading yours and others ( people I rate on here ) articles give me a buzz. I'll never stop coding until the day I die. Never feel useless ( it's useless ) I tend to find these things are sent to try us ( and they do ) gotta go my side's starting to burn
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think you can create the same effect by doing something else completely. This forces your brain to move
your problem into a background thread. It is being worked on so to say. Then at some point thereafter it returns to the foreground for further processing into actions.
Once you are too immersed into a problem you tend to forget other important things, such as the time, promises made to significant others, food left in the oven, lock the door, and maybe even where you are.
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Yeah, I run into that too, but it's a separate issue.
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Have you tried baking bread? Or bicycling? Or playing pennywhistle?
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I do stuff like that here and there.
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one of the most difficult things for some people is just to do nothing but breathe.
Just a couple of minutes, it makes wonders...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I do yoga and walk every morning. While I'm doing yoga I meditate. I've got breathing covered. 
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That's something I envy you... I have tried it, but never reached meditation trance.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It gets easier with practice. When I was young I took martial arts - a style of karate heavy on kata, and breathing and "clearing the mind" was a big part of it, so I internalized some of that, especially that it could be used to do things like reduce or eliminate pain.
Later, my first serious boyfriend was a buddhist, and my 18yo self got involved with it as well.
So I guess in one form or another it has always been part of my life. Still, I don't think it has to be for one to get there. I think it just takes practice.
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