> hard time focusing on things that I don’t like or want to do Not trying to be insensitive, but doesn't that describe everybody? At what point does difficulty motivating yourself to do something unpleasant become an actual pathology? I identify with a lot of the symptoms he lists, but I've never thought that meant there was anything "wrong" with me, I thought everybody felt that way. Are there really people out ther…
When it comes to tasks that you don't "want to do", it could be really ANY other task than what you want to do.
Imagine that you have some homework that's due, a work deadline that's absolutely imperative that you can meet, bills that have to be paid, or important call with your doctor - for the discussion, think of any task that's really important that you do.
Now imagine that your brain fees like...looking up some trivial thing on wikipedia, or similar. Just silly stuff that has no real importance - and is orders of magnitudes less important than what you need to focus on.
Now imagine that your brain and body is fighting all it can, for you to continue with the trivial task, and blocking the important stuff. You almost go into a trance.
You might be able to detach from some trivial task for a minute or two, only to get sucked back in.
Because it's such an invisible condition, it's hard to really know how bad it is. In the same way that people that have never suffered from migraines, might believe that migraines must be regular headaches, and that people that suffer from migraines might just be on the softer side.