Procrastination is not a mental illness

For the sake of your sanity, do not buy into this extremely flawed way of thinking.

If you were to believe the mainstream tripe about mental health, you’d be running back to your childhood for everything and blaming your parents for all your failures in life.

The irony of this claim about procrastination and laziness is that they both have a very simple, yet easy to overcome root cause.

You either believe in the value of what you’re doing, or you don’t.

If you don’t, the only reason you will do it is because there will be unpleasant consequences if you don’t do it. That’s why we leave things until we have no choice but to do it when we approach it as if it’s a punishment for living.

It’s this same reason that inspires us to look forward to our day, or to drag ourselves out of bed, regardless of how much sleep we got the night before.

The reasons for struggling to see the value in doing something requires self awareness and mindfulness.

But given that both are lost when we blame our past for our present failings, we further sabotage our efforts to connect with life in a more meaningful way.

Please, for the love of sanity and common sense, stop buying into the mindless crap presented as research about mental health.

Give yourself a fighting chance by simply understanding why you have good reason in your own mind to be averse to doing things that you know will be beneficial for you.

We’ve overcomplicated life and then reframed that complexity to be mental health.

We need to reclaim our humanness and the very real human experiences that give us reason to feel emotional duress from time to time.

It’s all part of being human.

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