Re:How to Do the Thing You've Been Avoiding
by hinkley on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:05PM
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The unfortunate thing with procrastination is that the anxiety is bimodal. You avoid doing things because there’s anxiety about fucking it up.
Then as the deadline approaches, not finishing at all is a kind of “fucking it up” that is not at all abstract or hypothetical. So now the anxiety of the deadline is focusing you on the task. It’s exhausting for one, and for another when you get a good review on your work you feel like a fraud, because everyone else took weeks to do this and you slammed it out in 6-10 hours.
Re:How to Do the Thing You've Been Avoiding
by amf12 on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:15AM
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As someone with ADHD, this is a constant in my life. In an ironic way, the anxiety when shit hits the fan is what makes me deal with stuff. But it's absolutely exhausting.
Then as the deadline approaches, not finishing at all is a kind of “fucking it up” that is not at all abstract or hypothetical. So now the anxiety of the deadline is focusing you on the task. It’s exhausting for one, and for another when you get a good review on your work you feel like a fraud, because everyone else took weeks to do this and you slammed it out in 6-10 hours.