How do you stop anxiety when you can't solve a problem in your code?

Take a break

Put on some chill music and break it step by step. Nothing wrong with the challenge, it is one of the main reasons why we are developers man!! Just don't let it get to ya, everyone struggles with shit from time to time.

Being a shit coder, if i come to a problem, I re-asses what I am trying to achieve so I write it down in plain english, as if I had to explain the problem to someone else in detail (but succinct). When you do this either the solution jumps out or you can leave it for days, when you come back just read the notes and you’ll have a clear direction, or see that your previous approach was shite.

You follow these simple steps:

1) buy a devDuck
2) talk him through the problem
3) throw him at a wall when he doesn’t solve the problem
4) apologise to the duck and buy him a beer
5) come back later and goto 1

@C0D4 Instructions unclear, duck stuck in wall.

@Grexius that’s why you need to go back to 1 😂

@C0D4 Now I feel like this is a scam to get people to buy rubber ducks.

@Hu-bot0x58 Or to hire wall repairs

you share the anxiety with other devs by dropping a column in production ?