Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees. I think this happens to everyone and just having a chat with another coder offers a new perspective and the veil

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees. I think this happens to everyone and just having a chat with another coder offers a new perspective and the veil is lifted. What happened to me was complete lack of programming problem solving skills. For about 6 months I was dead in the water. Coders block seems like a cute analogy but I was plain old burnt out. I managed to get by coding by numbers but it wasn't pretty. I quit my job, within a month I was getting the itch to code and then I was off again. I was lucky to be able to quit though. I know a lot of people can't take such extreme action.... it works though.