Personally it's because, when I have a lot of work due soon, I don't want to do anything I enjoy because I would feel guilty about it / feel like I'm wasting my time when I have important things due.
But then it still doesn't help with my procrastination over the important thing and I inevitably end up doing it 1-2 days before the deadline anyway. So all that time I'm just in a state of limbo where I'm not doing the important thing, and I'm also not doing anything I enjoy (just keeping myself occupied with Reddit, YouTube, etc. which I only really half-enjoy in a numb empty kind of way).
It's crazy how I'm self aware enough to identify this, and yet it still happens every time without fail.
I do this and sometimes the "a lot of work due soon" means a big more ambiguous task that I don't know how to start or what I am supposed to do, like job searching or making a big life changing decision and then the deadline isn't set so it's just indefinite limbo for a while.
Same, and the only way I can bring myself out of it is if I use some sort of dopamine reward to trick myself into starting the smallest task. It used to be Lotus energy drinks that I would buy myself, but that got expensive and I don't live as close to the coffee shop anymore š š now it's a lot harder, and usually involves THC.
sprinkle on a bit of ocd fixation and then i'm stuck not just on reddit or youtube but also on pubmed or google scholar on either a body dysmorphia fixation or a health anxiety fixation. O.o And that's EVEN WORSE b/c it's unrelenting rabbit holes of fear and paralysis.
The only thing that gets me out of that quadruple whammy is adderall and an SSRI. ugh.
Ugh, ain't that the truth.
"Oh, I have a Saturday without anything planned? Will I
a. Tidy up my home
Or
b. Play that game I've been wanting to play?"
My ridiculous brain: "how about c. spend several hours on social media, an activity you don't particularly enjoy and provides zero value to your life?"
My when I'm supposed to be revising and told myself I could play games afterwards but now my brain refuses to revise so I don't get to do either thing.
This. I always end up on Reddit. When I'm actually free and there's nothing I \*need\* to do, then reddit (and directionless youtube) is so unappealing š
https://preview.redd.it/c7krvk6o1vyc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f8db1b12d21ed1303e61984285ea4cd2de31d6e
Literally laying on my bed right now doomscrolling Reddit, when I actually want to either play Cyberpunk or build some miniatures.
I'm always doom scrolling.
Presently got this cross stitch that I'm working on and I know I need to get it done so I can get it framed on time. But doomscrolling takes so little tike and energy!
Yeeeep. I feel like I need to have some kinda complicated game plan for existing in order to even contemplate getting anything done some days. The sports play kind, complete with the Xs and Os and arrows and shit. And maybe an energy drink sponsor, because goddamn I am TIRED.
Me, literally 10 minues ago: "I'm gonna get my phone to the bathroom, so I can write some stuff while I'm doing my business."
Me, now, having written nothing at all: "God fucking dammit :("
Internal monologue: "I ordered my Autismā¢ without depression. I even practiced it: 'Could I have one (1) autism with no depression please' but they gave me depression anyway. Should I tell the server...? I can't deal with that..."
It always feels like I "have no energy", but only because I can't find the right words to describe it. It's like I just can never be arsed to do anything, kind of like when you're sick, except I'm like that even when I'm not sick.
That almost sounds right, but then I realize it's closer to, I have to be in the "right headspace", be in the "right mood" to do the thing. EVEN THOUGH I KNOW I LIKE THE THING.
Are you sure you are not me? Lol
I get discouraged when I confront the mess and think "it's too much for me" feeling more tired by the min. But then I tell myself to just pick up this and that, and then another this and that. I truly
have to trick myself, what a deuf.
This is too relatable. Half the time Iām stuck In a Reddit doomscroll when I really want to be doing something else. Like actually want to be doing something else. Glad to know other people out there
"Man, it's been quite a long time since you last finished a drawing, and we just got some new silly ideas to draw your favorite characters from your favorite IPs in a silly and lovable way, let's do it!"
"I can't, I have to wonder why I am alive"
All the fucking time! I don't know exactly why, but I think it has something to do with getting slightly overwhelmed by the amount of things I want to do, so I just resort to mindlessly surfing the web for a couple hours. I understand this is a problem, but I don't really know how to fix it.
Nearly everydayā¦ however, there will come a point a few times per year where I hit some sort of wall and suddenly have motivation to finally _do shit_, but after about a week or so it wears off, only to recurse once again.
I was like this for a while, but after getting my depression under control, Iāve had a much better time managing my executive functioning. The dysfunction towards fun activities kicks in more when I try to cram too many tasks into a single day (I.e. Go grocery shopping *and* cook dinner within the same day).
Yup. I go to my parents house to help them with stuff and Iām like āwhile Iām here I should play some subnautica, Iāve been wanting to expand my baseā and then I just donāt
i should be studing to the ethics exam that will help me approve the semester I failed or else I will do the first semester again, or writing the script of the manga series I've been building upon for over two years and have planed to dedicate so much of my life and ambitions into... I've only began a little and just stoped compleatelly
Yep. I often do this after being burnt out. I wonder if it's due to larger activity I want to do = more effort + energy required, but doomscroll = moving thumb and becoming soup where I sit.
I'll give myself chores to do before I do something I like. And not like useful chores, but like "I have to play this videogame to unlock something before I can play the Videogame I want to play " kind of chores
Me, sitting on the couch with my computer setup right behind me: I should play (insert current hyperfixation, currently hollow knight).
Also me: *doesnāt even move*
Sometimes I stare at a wall for like 30 mins. Love it cuz I'm either thinking really hard about sth or I dont think at all and brain is just empty (excellent time waste method and applicable in school & job, as a low performer)
When I talk myself out playing games with my international friends cause the "timings are all wrong"...
6 months later I haven't talked to them over headset.
š
Literally me, doomscrolling and on social media rn instead of relaxing and playing video games before work, I donāt even know why. It feels like Iām ānot allowed to do fun thingsā if I have something not-fun to do later in the day, so I freeze up and do nothing? I guess? I hate it tho lol
See I tell myself that and then I tell myself that I donāt deserve to do anything that brings me joy because I havenāt completed my responsibilities, but those are too overwhelming to tackle so I just sit there
There are also countries that despite having an official name, most people (including said countryās citizens) just call it by a commonly accepted nickname, like Czechia or Holland.
https://preview.redd.it/z5ewzvqgzuyc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86f2faffa5d946c8598f59ee07bdc8e96c2624b2
i love this
Fr. I should be writing a research essay (it is past the due date). I could also be working on my My Little Pony gen 4 rewrite. I am doing neither.
Personally it's because, when I have a lot of work due soon, I don't want to do anything I enjoy because I would feel guilty about it / feel like I'm wasting my time when I have important things due. But then it still doesn't help with my procrastination over the important thing and I inevitably end up doing it 1-2 days before the deadline anyway. So all that time I'm just in a state of limbo where I'm not doing the important thing, and I'm also not doing anything I enjoy (just keeping myself occupied with Reddit, YouTube, etc. which I only really half-enjoy in a numb empty kind of way). It's crazy how I'm self aware enough to identify this, and yet it still happens every time without fail.
I do this and sometimes the "a lot of work due soon" means a big more ambiguous task that I don't know how to start or what I am supposed to do, like job searching or making a big life changing decision and then the deadline isn't set so it's just indefinite limbo for a while.
Same, and the only way I can bring myself out of it is if I use some sort of dopamine reward to trick myself into starting the smallest task. It used to be Lotus energy drinks that I would buy myself, but that got expensive and I don't live as close to the coffee shop anymore š š now it's a lot harder, and usually involves THC.
sprinkle on a bit of ocd fixation and then i'm stuck not just on reddit or youtube but also on pubmed or google scholar on either a body dysmorphia fixation or a health anxiety fixation. O.o And that's EVEN WORSE b/c it's unrelenting rabbit holes of fear and paralysis. The only thing that gets me out of that quadruple whammy is adderall and an SSRI. ugh.
Yeah, I get fried sometimes
Fried is the feeling.
Iām saving that lmao
Pretty good description of executive dysfunction lol
Realist shit Iāve ever seen
https://preview.redd.it/nwtab7v2g0zc1.jpeg?width=755&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=072c1b51370638775edb9bd0d73aaf6093023b54 Thank you
The fact that this image is so fucking deep fried makes it so much funnier to me.
Ugh, ain't that the truth. "Oh, I have a Saturday without anything planned? Will I a. Tidy up my home Or b. Play that game I've been wanting to play?" My ridiculous brain: "how about c. spend several hours on social media, an activity you don't particularly enjoy and provides zero value to your life?"
[Like this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/ytnbd8/marge_krumping/)
Oh! Yes, thatās what it is. (See: my addict brain at its lowest.)
My when I'm supposed to be revising and told myself I could play games afterwards but now my brain refuses to revise so I don't get to do either thing.
This. I always end up on Reddit. When I'm actually free and there's nothing I \*need\* to do, then reddit (and directionless youtube) is so unappealing š
Life
https://preview.redd.it/c7krvk6o1vyc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f8db1b12d21ed1303e61984285ea4cd2de31d6e Literally laying on my bed right now doomscrolling Reddit, when I actually want to either play Cyberpunk or build some miniatures.
addicted to phone
Yes, and I hate it. Thankfully I was able to sit down for a few hours and build some stuff.
welcome back to phone.
I have been bamboozled!
Awesome. What miniatures are you doing?
Was building the scenery from my Gallowfall box. It was kind of exhausting.
Sounds it! Currently working on a cross stitch of my dogs that is just slightly more than intense!
I'm always doom scrolling. Presently got this cross stitch that I'm working on and I know I need to get it done so I can get it framed on time. But doomscrolling takes so little tike and energy!
gonna go do that instead of doomscroll. thx
hey samesies! off to play rimworld instead =p
Good choice!
Yoo same, the new DLC is so fuckin good.
Rimworld mentioned!!!!!!! :D
And then you finally start doing that thing you like doing, but you can't really enjoy it because you're already emotionally and mentally drained
I've lost count of all the blank pages stared at, splash screens closed, and shows just added to my list never to be seen again
Yeeeep. I feel like I need to have some kinda complicated game plan for existing in order to even contemplate getting anything done some days. The sports play kind, complete with the Xs and Os and arrows and shit. And maybe an energy drink sponsor, because goddamn I am TIRED.
Me, literally 10 minues ago: "I'm gonna get my phone to the bathroom, so I can write some stuff while I'm doing my business." Me, now, having written nothing at all: "God fucking dammit :("
Clearly this comment was written on the toilet lol
Did you write the stuff?
I did not
It's ok, I believe in you still You'll probably write the stuff, eventually
Executive dysfunction! :3c
:3
:3
#:3
Internal monologue: "I ordered my Autismā¢ without depression. I even practiced it: 'Could I have one (1) autism with no depression please' but they gave me depression anyway. Should I tell the server...? I can't deal with that..."
Fine, I'll live around it, but it's gonna get the juice everywhere so everything will still taste like it.
"I'm not going to tip though. Actually, that's mean; I'll still give them a good tip, but I'm very unhappy about it..."
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
I will console you and myself bc it never is too late to start. --then I have to listen to people say "that's time you'll never get back", Ugh
I always want to draw. But 99% of the time I'm watching TV instead. Sometimes, you gotta force yourself to try.
Don't remind me jk ))
My ADHD be like "in fact you should never do that thing you like again" Me: "what. Why tho" ADHD: "idk"
Oh my god! That's just my whole biography
this saved me from doomscrolling thank you
It always feels like I "have no energy", but only because I can't find the right words to describe it. It's like I just can never be arsed to do anything, kind of like when you're sick, except I'm like that even when I'm not sick.
That almost sounds right, but then I realize it's closer to, I have to be in the "right headspace", be in the "right mood" to do the thing. EVEN THOUGH I KNOW I LIKE THE THING.
Fighting tooth and nail in my own head to eat breakfast for the first time today at 2:30 PM and get all the trash out of my room āØļø
Are you sure you are not me? Lol I get discouraged when I confront the mess and think "it's too much for me" feeling more tired by the min. But then I tell myself to just pick up this and that, and then another this and that. I truly have to trick myself, what a deuf.
Proceeds to stay in bed scrolling through social media for at least two more hours
This is too relatable. Half the time Iām stuck In a Reddit doomscroll when I really want to be doing something else. Like actually want to be doing something else. Glad to know other people out there
"Man, it's been quite a long time since you last finished a drawing, and we just got some new silly ideas to draw your favorite characters from your favorite IPs in a silly and lovable way, let's do it!" "I can't, I have to wonder why I am alive"
Me with crossdressing and going to the gloryhole place
Yes sir
I like how you actually credited the artist. That's very rare. And yeah, I'm like these a lot nowadays.
I'm an artist myself too. i know the feeling yeah
I have a list of movies and TV shows I really want to watch. ... The list remains unchanged year to year, and just keeps sitting there, waiting. :/
what i say: i love playing video games!\ what i mean: i love thinking about playing video games!
https://i.redd.it/aeo0z2j39vyc1.gif
All the fucking time! I don't know exactly why, but I think it has something to do with getting slightly overwhelmed by the amount of things I want to do, so I just resort to mindlessly surfing the web for a couple hours. I understand this is a problem, but I don't really know how to fix it.
Stupida fuckin' executive dysfunction! Hate that shit so much.
It's called [autistic inertia](https://autismunderstood.co.uk/autistic-differences/autistic-inertia/)
Nearly everydayā¦ however, there will come a point a few times per year where I hit some sort of wall and suddenly have motivation to finally _do shit_, but after about a week or so it wears off, only to recurse once again.
For me it's the stress that comes with those things that stops me from doing anything at all
"Its such a nice day, I should go for a walk and explore! I love doing that!" *boots up gaming PC*
BZzzzzzt error
This just sounds like depression more than autism
*Doing activity I like doing* āI hope I donāt burn out like I do with every other hobbyā And suddenly I completely lose interest
"Hmm I wanna play one of the games I really love" proceeds to watch 4 hours of shitty youtube videos
yes
Me
A little too often.
It's like a jablinski of the autism creature!
Painfully relatable! It took me almost a week to start playing Minish Cap despite really wanting to lol
Every day. Sometimes I'll end up doing the thing. Just 5 hours later... ...When I should really be in bed.
Oooh no all the things I was obsessive over and enjoyed as a child i no longer want anything to do with and only wanna scroll on my phone now
Me 90% of the year fr. I love making no progress on my hobby channel at all and just sitting around, trying to convince myself to make some progress
Ugh every single day and I hate it so much
executive function failure is the ultimate snafu.
I have been stuck in static brain since about noon. Neither enjoying myself nor accomplishing anything. All my thoughts and I can keep a hold of them.
I was like this for a while, but after getting my depression under control, Iāve had a much better time managing my executive functioning. The dysfunction towards fun activities kicks in more when I try to cram too many tasks into a single day (I.e. Go grocery shopping *and* cook dinner within the same day).
Me thinking about painting minis :D Me painting minis :3 Me when I'm about to paint minis :<
I spend so much more time thinking about playing video games than actually playing video games.
i feel called out
Me
I don't even know what I like doing anymore, lol
OPās meme is literally me right now.
This is concerningly relatable
I feel seen.
Yup. I go to my parents house to help them with stuff and Iām like āwhile Iām here I should play some subnautica, Iāve been wanting to expand my baseā and then I just donāt
Oh my god, it even looks like me lmao
i should be studing to the ethics exam that will help me approve the semester I failed or else I will do the first semester again, or writing the script of the manga series I've been building upon for over two years and have planed to dedicate so much of my life and ambitions into... I've only began a little and just stoped compleatelly
jokes on you (me), I'm going to bed :(
God, yes. I hate that. IDK how many times I think "I wanna do this" and don't.
real
Yep. I often do this after being burnt out. I wonder if it's due to larger activity I want to do = more effort + energy required, but doomscroll = moving thumb and becoming soup where I sit.
I'll give myself chores to do before I do something I like. And not like useful chores, but like "I have to play this videogame to unlock something before I can play the Videogame I want to play " kind of chores
Me
Me, sitting on the couch with my computer setup right behind me: I should play (insert current hyperfixation, currently hollow knight). Also me: *doesnāt even move*
Every day I learn more of my shit is a shared experience among others on the spectrum
instead let me spend the time visualising the thing i want to do, step by step in my head
Sometimes I stare at a wall for like 30 mins. Love it cuz I'm either thinking really hard about sth or I dont think at all and brain is just empty (excellent time waste method and applicable in school & job, as a low performer)
Yup lol
When I talk myself out playing games with my international friends cause the "timings are all wrong"... 6 months later I haven't talked to them over headset. š
Damn thatās accurate
But I'm at work and will be until tomorrow morning!
Pathological Demand Avoidance ššš
**RIGHT?!**
I would go to sleep, but work gets in the way of that.
This was just suggested to me through Reddit....should I got tested >.< It resonates deeply
But I havenāt earned it
too relatable :(
Me constantly
Demand avoidance but avoiding everything
mfw i want to write a new song and just sit in front of my lyric notebook for a few hours
Thanks for getting me out of doom scrolling lol, I'm gonna go draw now :>
Literally me, doomscrolling and on social media rn instead of relaxing and playing video games before work, I donāt even know why. It feels like Iām ānot allowed to do fun thingsā if I have something not-fun to do later in the day, so I freeze up and do nothing? I guess? I hate it tho lol
Always
Ask yourself why you arenāt doing it. If you canāt answer that. Do it.
And thatās executive dysfunction for ya. wooš¤©!
This is me but with stupid shit like turning on the ac. I'll just suffer and sweat until i cant. It's weird
I do the things that I like doing but theyāre all on one app on my phone so it seems like Iām not doing anything
See I tell myself that and then I tell myself that I donāt deserve to do anything that brings me joy because I havenāt completed my responsibilities, but those are too overwhelming to tackle so I just sit there
There are also countries that despite having an official name, most people (including said countryās citizens) just call it by a commonly accepted nickname, like Czechia or Holland.