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MrsLilaAmes · 08/06/2023 14:51

… all the time I’ve killed”

Help! I am stuck in an endless rut of procrastination. I am not even doing useful or enjoyable things while procrastinating. Merely killing time. I hate it. I have such anxiety over starting anything. I even procrastinate over fun stuff- baths, novels, walks in the sunshine. And when I start something it is so easy and quick to complete that I have endless and crippling guilt over not doing it sooner.

My toddler DD was referred by her nursery for assessment for ADHD, and in reading the stuff about women and girls with inattentive ADHD I recognise this procrastination pattern being described. But tbh I have previously always just assumed I was a lazy and defective person. A habitual skiver who was smart enough to get away with it and cover my tracks. Maybe I am

We would have more money, a nicer life, be happier, enjoy more things if I could only get on. I can’t bear it any more. What can I do to get out of this rut?

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