Anxiety driven procrastination?

Procrastination brings short-term rewards, but tends to kick problems and anxieties to the rear burner where they grow, fester, and eventually become real monsters far worse than what they would have been if dealt with in a timely fashion…
 

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ArnoldC said:
Like Beezer (above), my motto is>

"Never do today what I can put off until tomorrow."

Must be an age-related thing? Never felt daunted by tasks until recently-within the last year or so. Seems everything is becoming a challenge. Not a physical challenge. A mental one. Even hobbies I once enjoyed. Not certain if it is a case of mild depression, or what. I'll think of something to do; followed quickly by all the reasons it can't be done. Really weird.
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I think I mentally crashed from a life-time of always doing everything I was "supposed" to do or "had" to do. I've always been a hard worker and showed up to prove you could count on me, from single parenting to working more than one job to make ends meet. Often at jobs when other people would be loud or complain, I would be the steady hard worker. Now I feel resistant to almost everything that puts pressure on me to have to do anything in some perfect way in some perfect time frame. Maybe I feel like no one listened to me or what I needed. I suppose in actuality I never realized it was me who needed to listen to me and make sure I did what I wanted when I wanted to.
 
DeePhase2 said:
I think I mentally crashed from a life-time of always doing everything I was "supposed" to do or "had" to do. I've always been a hard worker and showed up to prove you could count on me, from single parenting to working more than one job to make ends meet. Often at jobs when other people would be loud or complain, I would be the steady hard worker. Now I feel resistant to almost everything that puts pressure on me to have to do anything in some perfect way in some perfect time frame. Maybe I feel like no one listened to me or what I needed. I suppose in actuality I never realized it was me who needed to listen to me and make sure I did what I wanted when I wanted to.
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Same here. As a lower-level office worker, it was a lifetime of whoever was lowest in status--usually the female with the least amount of education or the least good-looking or the least charming--who got stuck with the worst tasks. So I guess I got heartily fed-up with tasks of any sort.
 

DeePhase2 said:
I think I mentally crashed from a life-time of always doing everything I was "supposed" to do or "had" to do. I've always been a hard worker and showed up to prove you could count on me, from single parenting to working more than one job to make ends meet. Often at jobs when other people would be loud or complain, I would be the steady hard worker. Now I feel resistant to almost everything that puts pressure on me to have to do anything in some perfect way in some perfect time frame. Maybe I feel like no one listened to me or what I needed. I suppose in actuality I never realized it was me who needed to listen to me and make sure I did what I wanted when I wanted to.
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Yes, this. I no longer worry about pleasing others. Its MY life.
 
officerripley said:
Aw, I'm sorry about that mobile, Remy. What in the world is going on with real estate here in this state?! I keep looking at houses for sale--even though Huzz refuses to move--but I keep hoping I can change his mind and I look only in a large neighborhood that has nice houses most of which I think we could afford and it's within walking distance of lots of things which I need now and he's gonna need sooner rather than later inspite of what he thinks, and this neighborhood is composed of at least 15 streets, several blocks of each and for about the last 5 years, there has only been ONE house come up for sale in the whole area and they wanted a couple hundred thousand more than what we could afford. I guess it's because of the Fire and real estate all over but it seems to just keep getting worse and worse.
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I'm so sorry, yes the fires really messed things up. Not only for the people who owned, rented and lost their homes, but also for anyone who was looking to buy. Inventory went down and prices went up.

Yesterday after 5 am (I was already awake) the guy downstairs did some real banging. I think he has anger issues. I have seen that woman back, but not permanently, that left who he was verbally abusing. And these owners of the complex. I just want to go.
 
chic said:
I have this and didn't even know it was a thing or that there was a term for it. I always thought of it as a coping skill. It's when you put off doing things because of too much stress or unknown outcomes. It has always worked for me to think of this condition as coping at my own pace when I have too much to cope with in the first place. I'm not happy multitasking so usually avoid that.

Are you an anxiety ridden procrastinator? How do you handle it? Just curious.
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I didn't know it was a thing either chic .. and I definitely have it.
I just tell myself to always be 'in the present' ... concentrate on the task at hand ...aka: shut everything else out.

Multitasking is a dirty word to me ...lol
 
JustBonee said:
I didn't know it was a thing either chic .. and I definitely have it.
I just tell myself to always be 'in the present' ... concentrate on the task at hand ...aka: shut everything else out.

Multitasking is a dirty word to me ...lol
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Ditto. And here I was thinking I had good coping strategies during crises. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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At times, for sure. However, I have always found that when I do tackle whatever it is, I feel much better. And yet I still procrastinate.
 

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