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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
Some do. proponents of forced treatment. And don't think even if we accept this term... it's NOT your case. You are aware.
I don't think this is IT though. How many of us post-pone going to dentist the minute their achey tooth stops hurting? Many postpone regular doc appoitments.
Because well, we don't like it. Just like we postpone paying bills and cleaning and writting our term papers.
SO it could be "stuff we hate to do" thing.
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There are two distinct phenomena here. In the case of a bill or a term paper due, we have pure procrastination. The person who procrastinates knows for certain that the bills need to be paid and the term paper needs to be written, but still postpones doing what needs to be done. A procrastinator knows full well that the bills will not take care of themselves and that it is not possible to get a passing grade without turning in the paper. In OP and in your toothache example, the person hopes that there would not be a need for care - the bp symptoms won't return and the toothache won't return either. It is a mental inflation of the probability of a positive outcome.