The title up there pretty much says it all. This is somewhat chronic illness related, it changes your thinking patterns after you’ve been forced to change your life for years.
I have learned that Procrastination and anxiety can be related. This is not the same as being lazy. I was very motivated in the past with difficult accomplishments that prove it. It got way worse after lyme got worse. I’d kinda like to fix it.
Somebody mentioned cognitive behavioral therapy last fall, (CBT). I’ve had a few anxiety posts but I think one was also about
procrastination. They are both related partially based on your past experiences and patterns that you learned in life.
My years treating Lyme made this worse, obviously because there was lot of things that became very difficult to do. It’s like I lost 10 years of my life doing only the necessities to live.
I don’t remember the exact details but I also posted about
that and anxiety forum and of course over there it seems like people’s answer for almost everything is medication instead of actually fixing the problem head on. Yeah OK I get it , but I don’t fix oil leaks in vehicles with duck tape either. Yes I’m generalizing but that is not the best or only choice out there.
I’m always in “over working mode” in the fall to take care of things before the snow hits. If I get them done it obviously feels better. My chores and projects pile up because I procrastinated about
them.I think the flipside of being a do it yourselfer is you just have too much to do. A couple of friends pitched in their time when they found out what I was trying to do, without me asking for it so that helped.
Anyway we had a pretty late spring and now it’s a hot summer, so When it’s comfortable out, I try to make myself do way too many things. That’s what I noticed when I woke up this morning - thinking how am I gonna do all the stuff this week before it gets hot again. I’m a very independent, self- reliant type and jokingly call myself a space cadet because well, .... I require space. That said , I understand that life is short and it’s probably good to meet new people sometimes. By the time you’re my age you realize the difference between good people and not so good people. Meeting people unfortunately is on the bottom of my list of priorities. It probably shouldn’t be, I doubt that can change but maybe it can.
***So I finally decided to Google CBT for procrastination anxiety again.*** It looks like this is getting pretty popular because it apparently works.
I’m not one to read books - I procrastinate on them , they will sit there on the table for a year , I will dust around them but never read them lol. They are even now online programs with apps for six months long that are like $.50 a day. There is of course some YouTube stuff on it too.
So I’ll have to put that a little bit higher on my procrastination list of things that I need to do!
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It’s a beautiful day out , it’s awful tempting to go on a long bike ride. Might just go for a very short ride to get motivated then try to do some chores / outside maintainence. Maybe then reward with a longer ride before sunset. (Playing mind games with myself lol.)
Post Edited (astroman) : 7/25/2022 8:19:46 AM (GMT-7)