Can procrastination be an addiction as well?

[Metalhead]

I am starting to think that just might be the case. I need somebody with a bullwhip to be sicced on my ass to keep me moving forward, and I need to be that somebody for myself. Motivation starts with personal discipline, it can’t be external.

Slacking off is an addiction.

Only I can break that addiction.

What the hell is stopping me?

My mental weakness?

 

[Xinyta]

There are many reasons to procrastinate.

Low self-esteem
Depression
Anxiety
Overloaded by life
Fears
Laziness

It's a tempting thing to do. It's always that whisper in your ear. The lingering thought in the back of your concious mind...

The mind is a amazing thing.

I still feel lost to how to break my cycle too. Though I've grown more aware of the patterns. It's hard to break habits. Especially deep entrenched ones. It's took will to make them. It takes will to break them.

I don't have any cure all solution for this. No one size fits all advice, that helps everyone.

But what I do know is that the what is created, can be destroyed. That the wall can be torn down. The bubble can be popped. The cage can be escaped.

The key. Positivity.

It sounds mundane. It sound like it's too simple to work. But it does. It just takes hard work.

You are right. Only you can change your own situation. Same as I am the only one who can change mine.

On the darkest days. It seems the game is rigged against us. But in truth. It's always darkest before the dawn.

Trials await us all, if we seek to improve. It's a fact of life. But life is wonderful for that reason. That it isn't all sunshine and rainbows.

Life is what you make of it. And that's what counts the most, in the end. How you define life in your own eyes.

 

[Misery]

What are you doing the most often while procrastinating?

That could be the addiction that needs breaking.

For most people it seems to be phone use & scrolling through social media and whatnot.

I personally found that the big thing that helped me was to simply distance and disconnect from the internet as a whole WAY more than what I was doing. Particularly Youtube. I think a lot of people seriously dont realize just how much of an effect that constant connection has. I rail against social media a lot specifically, but that sure aint the only source of addiction.

If you decide to try that though, you cant just go halfway. It wont work if you do that.

Seriously, this can have way more of an effect than you might think.


Another idea to go along with it: New hobby. Something that lets you make something.

Being productive is nice and all, but being productive while doing an activity you actually ENJOY can sort of reinforce the productivity overall. Theoretically.

 

[Metalhead]

I get so lonely that I can spend a countless amount of time hitting the refresh button on Internet forums hoping for replies to what I say.

I know, that is quite pathetic. A real strong person would not behave like that.

 

[Misery]

I get so lonely that I can spend a countless amount of time hitting the refresh button on Internet forums hoping for replies to what I say.

I know, that is quite pathetic. A real strong person would not behave like that.

You're too hard on yourself.

Recent years, a lot of people are super lonely. Expressed in a million different ways.

You arent alone in it, and it doesnt make you weak.

I've done it myself for the same reason. Couldnt get over lost friendships and connections (lost when AIM collapsed), and sometimes I get into that refresh loop just desperately chasing something that vanished a long time ago.

It hurts, doesnt it?

Feeling that doesnt make you weak. Admitting it and facing up to it, I think, is strength.

Just remember you're not alone.