It's like being stuck behind a glass wall in my own head - watching myself be stuck unable to do what needs to get done
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People thinks of themselves as machine following a spreadsheet plan. In reality we desperately NEED of times like these to just stop, and do...
...not.
...a.
...fucking.
...thing.
I call them burn days.
I've burned weeks.
the problem here is that it's been a single continous moment for my entire life, and there are in fact things that i want to do but it just doesn't happen.
I hope you're not saying that it's good to play minecraft until my body starts screaming at me loudly enough that i finally get off my ass and refill my water bottle? because it's really not good
In one way, I agree, but unfortunately with Executive Dysfunction it can also affect your need to eat or look after yourself, as your brain just fails to assign or prioritise tasks. It gets really bad for me if I am or was recently overstimulated, or if I'm having a depressive episode.
I've had days where all I needed to do was have a shower, go to the shop, eat food then go play a game since it was the weekend. But the dysfunction hit so hard I couldn't do any of it so just sat staring at a wall for an hour and doomscrolling for another few hours. I'd have preferred to have just played the game, but since that was one of my planned tasks, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Took majority of the day before I could break out of it and get to the shop before they closed. Almost sounds odd when explaining it but the brain is an unusual thing sometimes...
But yeah I do agree that sometimes people work themselves too hard and need to find time to stop and give time to themselves
Right. In some situations, that's probably the right thing. I'm not sure about OP's situation, but this comic resonates with me for the following scenarios (among many, many others):
In all of these cases, I know what to do, and I want to do it, and I'm able to do it. I just don't. Somehow, I just don't. I just can't get myself to do the thing. If that doesn't resonate with you, or your immediate reaction is "oh, just do the thing!", then maybe you're not the target audience of this comic.