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14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3043

Decide to document my work on procrastination on my blog. I will continue my progress on procrastination on my blog here.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3043

Nov 10 Wed Day 1 - Work on my Procrastination

This is Day 1 of my work on Procrastination

My problem is procrastinating on task/goal that I need to work on. I will identify positive elements in me, that would help me to overcome my procrastinating habits.

Some positive elements that I identify is:

1. Experiment to cultivate my own Self-motivation & encouragement
2. Experiment to cultivate my own training & growing capacity
3. Experiment to cultivate My kindness to myself

At the same time, I worked on the free procrastinational modules supplied by the West Austrialia Health Authority.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 653

Hi MMS,

So your insight is that you are behaving like a depressed person, but not thinking or feeling like one. Interesting that you figured that out! What are you doing to attack your procrastination? How is it going?

Tiana, Health Educator

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3043

On day 14, I used nap as procrastinating activity; Inappropiate nap triggers social withdrawal and lower energy level. On day 14, I napped for 6 hours, in addition of 9 hours of normal sleep.

Use "Being Mode" to increase awareness of my procrastinating activity, e.g. nap, internet surfing, random reading, social withdrawal.

Use "Being Mode" to learn to make room for discomfort feeling caused by NEW behaviour of doing procrastination(anxiety provoking) tasks.

From NOW ON, I turn my focus on my procrastination. Depressive behaviour is my procrastinating activity. I have little depressive thinking or depressive feeling. I have only depressive behaviour.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3043

Depression is gone by Day 13, 14 of my depression episode #3.

My depression may be caused by my procrastination on my goal/task. Start working on my procrastination goal/task.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 653

Hi MMS,

Good work on continuing to set goals for yourself. How are you doing with them? What pleasant activities are you enjoying? Have you thought about blogging. like doing a journal, from the Forum page? That might be a good way for you to track your days. Also, using the Mood Tracker Diary might be helpful.

Having said that, I'm still glad that you are using the forum to share and receive support!

Just breathe.

Tiana, Health Educator

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3043

At day 11 of Depression Episode #3, depression comes again in full force after my morning routine,

I slept from 9am to 6am the next day, for 20 hours without eating anything. This is what I call hibernation. This is a viscious cycle, casued by avoidance behaviour, procrastanating actitivities and depression expression, feeding into each other.

In depression expression, I have very few negative affective and thinking components. I can only observe that I am depressed from my behaviour(avoidance and social withdrawal).

As I said before, I am going to do the following:

1. hourly mood thermomter, observe behaviour component, as I have little negative thinking and affective components.

2. Do breathing space, "Being mode".

3. Use the hourly timer.

4. Do procrastinating task(task that I am have anxiety about), helped by learning from procrastination module.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3043

At day 10 of Depression Episode#3, depression is gone. I am starting to do my procrastinating task.

In order to monitor and observe depression, I should use hourly use

1. the mood thermomter

2. do breathing space

3. use the hourly timer to remind me.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3043

Continue my story of "shorten the stay of depression" of Oct 31, 2010, in the "Introduce Yourself" section .

This is Day 8 of depression, I turn on the "being mode", and turn off the "doing mode". My mind is more regulated than before. See what happen on Day 9.