My wife's therapist recently instructed her to start plunging her face in ice when she gets overwhelmed with anxiety (mostly because she was refusing to consider meds)
The ice plunge is generally understood to help by stimulating the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system. But I wonder if it is related to this too.
Do people actually hire programmers without any experience in programming? I never realized that.
But I also had a similar experience when getting into sales (almost did a bootcamp and an acquaintance told me to just apply for jobs, they were right).