I Knew a Programmer that Went Completely Insane (2013)
This scared the hell of me. I am on my first programming assignment ever, putting extra efforts to do it quick and do it well. I am working on it for like 16 hours a day and in 3 days have brought it to level which was expected to be in 15 days. I made it 18 hours yesterday thanks to the comments like "phenomenal work" from my employer/mentor.<p>Side effects? My head is feeling numb. It's the same feeling as you have when sitting crossed legs and your feet go 'sleep', when you can't feel you have feet and there's no feeling of pain on pinching them. Also I am finding it harder and harder to think deep. I could collect great level of detail earlier, but now I feel like my head is refusing to think. I thought it was just another level of boredom as I haven't seen daylight for last 3 days. I thought my brain is behaving strange because it's tuning itself for more optimal performance. But F<i></i>k performance, I didn't realize things can get as wrong as the OP says.