Is the procrastination affecting your job performance or only personal projects? If it's personal projects, then I would stop putting so much pressure on yourself to accomplish them. You don't have to be productive all the time.
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#12Try deep ketosis via ketogenic diet and try high fat carnivore diet. These things are super hyped up right now and seem like scams but they touch upon very real and very powerful metabolic pathways and mechanisms. They have helped many people with severe mental illness including myself.
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#13Looks like bipolar. Quetiapine definitely helps for sleep - and you need a mood stablizer as well - like Divalproex. That will give you steady mood to do things property and stick with projects and such. Please ask your doctor to prescribe it for you.
Really? You’re going to diagnose someone over the Internet and tell them medicine to take? Dangerous.
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#14Irene Lyon has lots of quality advice on her channel. She is a nervous system and trauma specialist.
Julie Yau has a "trauma workbook" with many exercises you can do on your own. She is also a very compassionate woman with deep knowledge about the nervous system, though her book is practical, not theory.
If you really want more theory about nervous system to "trust" the above advice, look into "Nurturing Resilience" by Kathy kain
All the best to you.
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#15I think I understand where you are coming from because I get the same way. I get excited about a project at first, but then I think "what's the point?" and put it off.
My advice when you are feeling that way is to tell yourself "I will work on this for just 10 or 15 minutes and then if I feel like it, I will stop." That way you aren't under any pressure.
I find this works because it's harder to get motivated when you are putting a lot of pressure on yourself to spend hours working on something. Instead just commit to a little bit - if you enjoy it, then keep going. If not, no big deal - at least you did did a little bit. Maybe tomorrow you'll want to do more.
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#16Sounds like ADHD. See if you can get diagonosed. I knew I had it. Anything slightly boring was physically painful for me.
But I waited until 40 to get diagnosed.
First time on my life I was able to stay on task for sometime that wasn’t super interesting.
I can’t tolerate the meds, but I do a lot better since I lost the mental pain of being bored.
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#17Looks like bipolar. Quetiapine definitely helps for sleep - and you need a mood stablizer as well - like Divalproex. That will give you steady mood to do things property and stick with projects and such. Please ask your doctor to prescribe it for you.
Really? You’re going to diagnose someone over the Internet and tell them medicine to take? Dangerous.
It’s not fair to suggest medication but given OP’s own admitted diagnoses and his mother’s Parkinson’s he almost certainly has poor dopaminergic functioning.
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#18Does the workforce there not offer things like disability for issues exactly like this?
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#19Looks like bipolar. Quetiapine definitely helps for sleep - and you need a mood stablizer as well - like Divalproex. That will give you steady mood to do things property and stick with projects and such. Please ask your doctor to prescribe it for you.
They also mentioned moral issues. Do you really feel comfortable suggesting medication to someone who just may be stuck in the wrong career?
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#20Check out the Pomodoro technique for focus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
But also be aware that with respect to evolution this kind of sedentary work is completely unnatural. Also assuming most work from your country (as most of this industry has become) will be remote, it might be hard to ground it in your life, which is OK. The problem here is that we don't live in a world with basic human rights guaranteed.