• JuicyGyri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    We need more very hungry caterpillar memes in this world. Cute and relatable as I write procrastinating from my cocoon!

  • UnicornKitty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    After my burnout, I discovered I operate on fear. I no longer work and my mother is dead so all stress related to doing things I need to do is gone. I have to work myself up to a shower over several days to a week. I don’t take care of myself at all. I hate it but I actually need someone to shame me into doing something. The embarrassment and stress is the only thing that can guarantee I have the energy to do something.

    So I think the answer to this question is, I don’t deal with it. I just live with the shame of not dealing with it. Considering what I’ve been through, shame is a drop in the bucket. Won’t be changing any time soon.

    • bulbasaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The biggest thing that helped me was to just accept that my brain is like this and not beat myself up about it. When I learned that executive disfunction was a thing with a name that lots of ppl have, and not just me being a lazy and useless moral failure, like it helped me immediately bc stress and anxiety and self loathing turned into a feedback loop that made my executive dysfunction worse. Being mean to myself never made me functional, it just made me miserable. Now I’m like, “well, I just can’t do that right now and that’s okay. Maybe I’ll even ask someone for help doing this task. Maybe I’ll just find zen in laying here.”