Learning Coding: feeling confident, frustrated, lost, sick, & confident again!!

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Recently, I went through useEffect(), useContext(), useReducer() and Routing methods. To understand the concept I approached project-based learning as suggested by my mentor. Though, learning all these crucially important concepts made me feel great momentarily.

By the time I embarked on my next project, where I had to use all these recently learned/used methods altogether, my moments of happiness shattered, and my misunderstanding, that " I have learned all these above-mentioned cool methods ", vanished in no time. It's been months since I started learning to code, though I started with no past connection with computer science. It was a cool and nice excuse at the beginning while I failed to link my CSS file to an HTML file or to figure out how to start with new concepts, where to find content, or how to debug minor bugs. But now, saying that would not be a good reason. By the time I'm writing this I have learned HTML, CSS, JS and started working with react. I know I have done so much when I look at the past, from where I have started. But every time I struck somewhere, failed to debug any problem, or got confused, I usually develop a feeling that lacked the confidence, energy, and courage to take the challenge. Then usually, I start avoiding the problem, try to escape from it by investing my time in useless and unproductive activities such as watching movies all the time, and then within a short time, my body starts to feel sick and my mind gets an excuse, " I'm sick so, I'm on leave" and then I watch more movies. In this process, I used to waste 10-15 days, but now it came to 3-4 days. But at this time, a day without any productive activity I feel bad, my heart doesn't sync with my body. My mood becomes as unpredictable as chameleon colors. So, here I'm starting with a fresh mind again after wasting a whole day. I know many of you have been through this phase. I'm writing mainly because of two reasons, firstly to get insights from people who have been there before me, and second, to document my journey so, I could get to analyze and understand it in a better way. So, I could avoid happening it again and again. So, friends apologize for wasting your time here, but if you find it common in some way or have a solution or experience to share, please free to connect. Thanks!!!