This feeling comes to me in waves and it’s been like that since I was still an awkward teen in the late 90s. I wonder if it’s just because I tend to expend so

This feeling comes to me in waves and it’s been like that since I was still an awkward teen in the late 90s. I wonder if it’s just because I tend to expend so much energy on a very interesting (to me, at least) computer-related problem that I need to step back afterwards for X number of days/weeks/months before I’m ready for the next one.