(By the way, I seem to have a milder form of this. If the consequences are sufficiently bad or sufficiently near, like when there is deadline, I can make myself do the unpleasant thing. But things that have no external deadline… often just don’t happen, sometimes for years.)
Could possibly this be what they call ADHD?
(By the way, I seem to have a milder form of this. If the consequences are sufficiently bad or sufficiently near, like when there is deadline, I can make myself do the unpleasant thing. But things that have no external deadline… often just don’t happen, sometimes for years.)
Quite possibly. I did get an ADHD diagnosis as a kid...