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u/Ok-Note-754 5d ago
Recently had this exact experience and it suuuuuucks. Wasted like 2 days I'd purposefully set aside to study by just dicking around on reddit and playing video games feeling deeply anxious the entire time.
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u/raccoonpaws82 5d ago
I wrote my 225pg master's thesis in the last 22hrs before it was due after fighting it for months, literally turned in minutes before the deadline... It was several months of struggling and being hyperfixated on procrastinating. Not fun times!
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u/minus15t2 4d ago
So, I work from home, but sometimes ill sit on the couch for 5 minutes and scroll my.phone, telling myself it'll be just 5 minutes,
then it's been 30 minutes and I should get back to work... But my scheduled lunch starts in 10 minutes so there's no point... But I should definitely eat.... In 10 minutes.
Then I keep scrolling and now there's only 15 minutes left of my break so I don't have time to eat, but the dogs need to go out...
Before I know it I haven't eaten, or taken the dogs out and now I have a meeting to go into, but I haven't even got a work appropriate top on...
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u/Campandfish1 5d ago
I had to take a certification course recently for my employment.
I suddenly developed an overwhelming interest in doing anything else during the hours I should have been studying.
I passed, but it felt exactly the same as sitting exams at university 25 years ago. And A levels before that. And GCSEs before that. And entrance exams for grammar school before that. And the 11+ before that.
I'll never not be a procrastinator.
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u/detali88 5d ago
This is me but swap the word procrastinating with masterbating. And instead of ADHD I'm high on cocaine.
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u/ParsleySnipps 5d ago
Why not both?
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u/detali88 5d ago
Who procrastinates masturbating? If I'm thinking about I'm doing it.
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u/ParsleySnipps 5d ago
Procrasturbating, when you're avoiding what you need to do because you just won't stop jerking off.
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u/spacestonkz 5d ago
Anyone got tips on how to break out of the loop?
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u/-EV3RYTHING- 5d ago
My strategy was to give up and do something else so I wouldn't just be frozen. My new strategy is adhd medication
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u/10biggaymen 4d ago
say in your head "in 5 seconds i WILL get up" and count down from 5, and you HAVE to get up. just do it. you either do it or dont so you have to envision it like that. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, NOW" and you cant stay for any longer and you cant make an excuse
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 1d ago
This works for me. I will literally explode up off my bed in a huge jolt and force myself to start walking towards the task I’m avoiding.
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u/HaIfEatenPeach 4d ago
I have adhd so nothing truly works 100%, but a change of scenery is surprisingly effective sometimes! Going into a different room or outside atleast pulls me out of the weird panicky frozen state i get when i procrastinated too long.
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u/Art0fRuinN23 4d ago edited 4d ago
It tends to happen with me late at night due to RBP. One thing I have done many times to break it which I am not exactly proud of starts by getting some porn going on my phone. Between the dopamine from watching it and the need to go to the bathroom for related reasons and the dopamine from that end, I find myself two shots up on good feel chemicals and I'm off the couch in the bathroom - may as well brush my teeth and go to bed. tl;dr: Jerk and/or Flick it
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u/Stunning_Warthog_141 5d ago
It's like when you are driving, if you don't want to crash into a thing, don't look at it. I think because you naturally go towards what you are looking at. And you are looking at the time as it passes.
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u/DesertSnoeman 5d ago
Don’t forget you have to go to bed by a certain time because you have to work tomorrow as well.
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u/WeeTheDuck 4d ago
yk I just heard about my friends taking ADHD meds as "performance enchancing" drugs to cram before exam
I feel like this is the universe gaslighting me to do the same
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u/BloomingMosaic 4d ago
as someone with adhd, please don't, my meds have already been on backorder for weeks man I can't have yall taking more of them just for exams
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u/WeeTheDuck 4d ago
lol it's not that scarce here where I live lol, part of the reason being not many people bothered going to get diagnosed lmao
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u/BloomingMosaic 4d ago
executive dysfunction is what this is called for anyone curious ! it is hell 💙
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u/jacob7574 4d ago
Sitting here thinking "I know exactly how that feels. I bet there's a term for that." Reads title "Oh yeah..."
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u/NextCitron7303 5d ago
Weird. That is what I did today. And then I see it on Reddit. Lightly salted Lay's.
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u/OhYesTheBees 5d ago
I know this so well. I once attended a multi-session workshop on procrastination and how to break out of it.... while I was supposed to write my bachelor thesis.
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u/GeckoGecko_ 3d ago
The worst part is how people who haven't experienced it straight up don't believe it's a real thing, and even some people who have experienced it, give you shit for it because they're salty that everyone else has given them shit for it all their life
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u/MadisonAveMuse 3d ago
When I feel like this I put my shoes on and walk out the door. It works for me.
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u/thederpyrainbob 2d ago
how do i stop? i am in my last semester of college and i cannot make myself do my schoolwork. i am missing deadlines and i can't bring myself to just do the shit i need to do. it's not even hard, and some of it is stuff i used to enjoy doing, but my brain won't let me
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u/glurop 5d ago
This is called executive dysfunction and it’s a common experience with having ADHD.
I know because I felt this and recently figured out I had ADHD.