I’ve had procrastination as a struggle for a long time.

With university assignments it was pretty normal because I wasn’t the only one.

But now long after that, I find it still procrastinate even with things that would benefit me massively.

As an example, I bought a Nootropic off label (it’s a pharmaceutical medication) and was excited to start using is… yet paradoxically… still haven’t. I only realised this today over a week after collecting it from the delivery collection point.

What’s interesting is that this resembles a symptom known as avolition.

What this means is whilst it’s still entirely worthwhile to address procrastination from a cognitive stance with cognitive strategies, there’s still the remaining issue that avolition is a chemical based symptom and is related to depression.

So if you don’t address the underlying chemical basis for the problem, it’s like trying to find a bucket of water when you’ve got holes 🕳 in the side of the bucket: you’ll be slipping backwards by 2 steps backward for every one step forward.

Irony: the Nootropic I bought actually boosts mood yet I’ve been putting off starting it. 🤔