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Old Dec 01, 2013, 02:43 AM
peacefulplace peacefulplace is offline
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I'm not sure if I have adhd, I was diagnosed with it but needed further testing. I have trouble starting tasks and get distracted with other things ad infinitum, even if the tasks are easy. They require concentration and time sink so I dread them. Once I get started it's fine, but I can fall off track by getting distracted again. I'm ok doing the ones I can daydream through.

What helps me is to think of the task in a comforting way. Like a peaceful meditative ritual. I loathed having to take a shower before but now I love it because it became part of my procrastination repertoire.
I can't stand reading school issued texts because I have trouble reading (can't concentrate unless interesting content and/or I have distracting thoughts/daydreams inspired from every line I read so I'm slow). The deadlines also cause me frustration because of that limitation. I think this cycle of frustration can be overcome if I pick something I dislike more than this task and use this task as means to procrastinate the one I don't like more.
I can't stand the pressure/anxiety/inefficiency from cramming things at the end (I used this since I was a child to get things done but now I can't be bothered to and just miss the due date) so I just think of the reading assignment as something to delay that, since reading is much more peaceful/comforting and preferable. So I'm procrastinating the crash by doing the tasks that I used to procrastinate on. Procrastinception!
Thanks for this!
medicalfox