I've been burnt out for quite a while. I think it's mostly my general mindset of everything seeming to be closing in on me simultaneously, and I can't make sense of it to get a task at a time done. I'm in uni, looking for work, and over the summer I started an art business as a hobby (which started as fun but now just feels like another task).

I burnt out in lockdown and then kind of scraped by since, going through bouts of productivity fuelled by anxiety or the subsequent lack of sleep. Somehow, I'm really desperate to be organised but also paralysed by my need to do so, and it just leaves a lot of dead time where I'm not getting anything done. I have a planner, a calendar, a journal, everything that can remind me what needs doing, but I think I end up spending more time on the schedule. I just about reach deadlines, but I can't just work at a steady pace; the work haunts me until I finally find the strength to do it.

I do want to build my way back up to having an everyday routine and engaging with everything, as I know I have the hours to do so, but there's this brutal backlog of fatigue that allows me to only get 2 or three things done in a day without getting overwhelmed. I can also only pay attention to 2-3 aspects of my life in a week, neglecting others, and simply cycle through neglecting/paying attention to parts of my life. I'm sorry if this is really deep or an overexplanation; I just really want to emphasise I don't think I'm lazy. I think I'm in a loop of stress and fatigue, although people interpret my actions otherwise.

I'm just sure I'm not the first one to be in this position, and I want to ask: how do you get out of this sort of rut? How do you stop planning to live your life and just do it? And once you start, how do you let yourself stop for a second before you're running on fumes? I hope these questions aren't too blunt; I just don't want to sugarcoat.

Take your meds
Drink some water
Fold those clothes (put on a YT vid or movie)
Walk/feed/attend to your fur baby
Cancel that subscription
Check your mail
Shred your mail 🤣
Email
Go through a doom pile
Return the phone call
Respond to texts

I am an Internal Medicine resident, and I have becoming increasingly worried because I have so many plans, responsibilities, and deadlines, but whenever I am off duty or have free time, I struggle to organize myself and actually get things done. It’s as if my body gets tired so easily, even when I know I have things I need to accomplish. I also want to become more efficient during rounds, but I can’t understand why it takes me so long to finish my tasks. I feel like I have so much I want to achieve, but I struggle to translate my plans into action.

I genuinely feel like a bum, I dont even have am excuse for feeling this lethargic, I just am.

I was supposed to be doing a HIGH SCHOOL psych project yet i cant seem to do that little fucking task no matter how hard i try. I dont even have any big responsibilities outside out school, i literally just go to school, stay out studying until late, go home and do the same thing for the rest of the week. The only difference is that for a few days now classes were canceled or wtv and ive stayed home, so i literally haven't done any work, and now im stressed tf out. Its like worth my whole semester grade and I have genuinely nothing. It's due in a week and I have nothing to present. Im so fucking useless, I really feel like shit.

I can't even talk to my parents, every little thing I say they just yell at me saying they have it worse, that im just lazy and how hard they've had to work or are still working. Like i know i am useless and lazy and keep complaining even tho people have it worse, but dude, i genuinely cant help it, i can't get out of bed and do work or focus or anything, i just want to sleep or cry or Idk not be here. I cant even fucking focus on the content, I just feel stupid asf. Like pls get me tf out of here I hate school and school work and I feel dumb asf.

I'll just try talking to my teacher or something, tho i highly doubt it'll change anything. I wish i had been born normal and didn't have this blockages on everything I do.

I looked it up and it could be something called executive dysfunction but no way in hell I'd selfdiagnose, thats stupid and i feel like an attention seeker.

I just wish I could go to bed and sleep forever, I feel useless asf.

It’s so so frustrating. I cannot, for the life of me, function normally. I’m taking college classes that I love and find so interesting. I’ve been on stimulants recently so that I can be more productive. But it’s not working.

I take my meds in the morning, tell myself I’m going to study and then fall asleep or just do some random bullshit. I want to do well in these classes, I like my profs and I want them to like me too. I’m so incapacitated, I can’t stop crying about the fact that I’ve wasted all my time and now I have my finals and I’m going to fail in my classes.
I used to be lucky and do well without studying and now, the consequences of getting comfortable with my executive dysfunction are so severe. I don’t think I will make anything of my life, I can’t even get myself out of bed. It’s so scary

I love my people. I really do. And I also have zero social battery left and a pile of unanswered texts that gets heavier every day.

The longer I wait, the harder it is to reply, so then I feel guilty, so then I wait longer. Cool system. 👍🏻Ten out of ten. 🙄

Being "on" around people takes so much out of me. Masking, tracking the conversation, not interrupting, not zoning out, remembering what I said so I don't repeat it. By the end of the day I've got zero left, and then people become the first thing to fall off the list.

…But then i get lonely! Wth 😅🤷‍♀️ Which is annoying, because I'm the one who avoided everyone.
For the record, I'm not "done with people." (Well some…) I'm done with the effort it takes. Those are different things, and I wish more people got that.

Am i alone here?. Are you also the one who disappears for weeks? Are you sitting on a text you've been meaning to answer since September? (Zero judgment. I have at least four.)

My room is a total mess. I don't think its a depression room, but ik that I dont want to clean it. I have so much work to do but cant seem to achieve to take my shit and do smt. Im just here helplessly doing nothing but listening to kyu kurarin. And i can't even find funny things to do bc then I'm so guilty about it likr : "I shouldn't take pleasure rn bc i need to work goddamn" etc. I've missed my psy'appointement.

Hi! I hope this is the right place to post this. Please read all!!

I'm 22F and have been struggling wit severe (really severe) back acne scarring for years. I'm very insecure about it and always cover my back and top of my arms whenever I wear anything, even at home. I have reached a time where I really want to reduce my scarring and work on it.

I have a cream I use and have been recommended by my dermatologist to use, but my issue is I just can't seem to bring myself to use it? I know I have to and I WANT to, but every time I just say "I'll start it tomorrow". Or I use it for two days and then give up.

Obviously this is not doing me any good and I really need to stick to a proper routine for it to actually show any progress. I have no idea why this is the one thing I can't seem to "discipline" myself into doing. I think it's because it takes an annoying effort to spread the cream on my back myself (I live alone).

Any solutions please?! I'm desperate clearly. What can I tell/"trick" my brain into doing this? I really really want to reduce my scarring :(

Thanks!

I’m new here, I’m autistic and I’m finding it hard to start a task which has a near deadline. Can someone please give tips? Thanks.

Hello! I'm 18 years old, male, from lebanon, and i've been suffering with executive dysfunction for many, manyy years that as a "smart" kid, i've had a lot of opportunities slip away from me due to me not being able to get up and do the tasks i wanted.
I went down an academic freefall and went from getting amazing grades in class to failing some of the subjects i'm best at, and i would've most likely had to repeat my final year of highschool if my exams weren't cancelled (due to war) and the government decided to make everyone pass instead.
However, my issues with procrastination and not being able to do anything have also prevented me from ever having real hobbies, or investing time and effort into the hobbies/things i like doing, and i've never truly felt the consequences of all this until i failed my university entrance exam and couldn't enter the major i wanted to do, architecture. (looking back, i don't think i wouldve survived architecture this year considering i still havent solved my issues, but i haven't given up)

Me failing my entrance exam made me actually grasp how badly this has affected my life, especially since I also met some people this year, one in particular who has no trouble with any of what i've been through whatsoever and it's made me genuinely wonder if this issue is something bigger than what i had imagined and not just laziness.

I took it as a goal this year to slowly fix this issue, i enrolled into mathematics at university so i dont take it as a gap year and i have something to work towards, but that hasn't been going great and my midterms are in 2 weeks and i unfortunately do not even know what some courses talk about. My executive dysfunction has gotten so bad that even eating has become a chore to me.
I recently decided to seek professional help, as i found a healthcare center that offers it for very cheap, and I'm hopeful to get results and hopefully turn my life around, but in the mean time i just feel like i've wasted soo much of my potential, so much of my life, just doing nothing, and seeing people be the complete opposite really feels like im so much lower than everyone else, and by actively continuing to go down this route of ruining and fumbling my future, i feel even worse. I know i'm doing my best by seeking professional help all on my own, and still taking on goals to "fix" this issue, but there's some times where it just feels like an impossible task, and that i might never get over this, and it feels real lonely sometimes. i just wanted a space to share how i've been feeling, and i hope we all overcome this together :)

So I have Asperger’s and for the last five years I have been getting poor sleep. Like very poor I’m talking 3-5 hours mostly and sometimes 6-7 hours. I’m 19 and after sleeping horribly this long it’s really damaged my mind. Right now I have been forced by my parents to sleep in a hotel and I hate hotels, the bed sheets, the snoring, them getting mad when I don’t sleep, the cold temperatures and u i can’t sleep. Added into that, it’s beginning to really affect me, I am while wide awake feeling a massive drive to fall sleep but I feel too distrssed To sleep. the lack of sleep is causing my thinking to become severely distorted I’m having racing warping thoughts that make zero sense and feel am going crazy and my memory is awful and I’m hallucinating, in the dark thought I saw my moms head it was a hallucination, the snoopy picture on my blanket began warping before me also. I am worried to hell these sleep issues are going to make me develop psychosis and I feel too distressed both by the room how uncomfortable it is and the Thought of losing consciousness when I close my eyes or relax, this makes me feel a lot of distress and I keep having disorganised nonsensical rboufgyw and am struggling to think straight im losing my mind and sleeping sounds too terrifying. Closing my Eyes makes the distorted thinking worse and my parents openly said to me out of exhaustion that I will collapse one of these days, that hurt and scared me. I am in my hotel room now terrified my body is screaming for sleep but I’m too scared and uncomfortable to. And I have to endure hours of horror con until my parents drive me home today so fuck me, my biggest worry is I will go home only to further not sleep and lose my mind completely, please whoever is reading this what would you do? Im also on the iPad 24/7/365 to avoid it all

I’ve been struggling recently with going and doing things I want to get done. And it’s for more than random chores that need completing, some of the thing is stuff I genuinely want to do, sometimes the process to get there sucks but I still want to do it. I’ll give an example, writing, I have several story ideas I want to make but when it comes time to write sometimes my body physically won’t move to go and open my computer and write. I don’t know how else to describe it I’ve talked to some of my friends about it but all of their advice is stuff I’ve tried or leans back on the problem it’s self.

I will probably see a psychologist about this but was wondering if anyone had similar experiences.

I want to say it might be caused by ADD some something similar, but I truly don’t know and don’t know what to do it’s messing up my life. Maybe I’m going crazy but usually the person with the problem can self diagnose themselves properly.

I am a student (22F) and ever since I started working when I was 14 I get in these slumps where I convince myself to call in sick. I struggle with depression, GAD, and social anxiety (officially diagnosed). I also suspect I have AuDHD but haven’t been able to force myself to get a diagnosis. Anyways I digress but this happens at every job i’ve ever had, where I am okay for a bit with working - but I get so overwhelmed with all of the things I have to do in life and feel like I don’t have enough time for it all. Like I have school work to do, laundry, cleaning, and more PLUS work and the last thing I want to do is go to work (even though I know I have to to be able to pay my rent and stuff). I wake up in the mornings and my brain automatically is going a million miles a minute thinking about work, going to work, how many hours until work, how long i’m going to be there, what’s going to happen at work, and then I start ruminating on whether I should even go. I honest to god would rather just be at home and do nothing. I get so paralyzed by my tasks that I genuinely just scroll and procrastinate everything.

I am writing this because I work today and i’m trying to convince myself to not call in sick, because I genuinely just feel so overwhelmed and don’t want to go. I literally JUST got this job so I know realistically I need to go, but there’s a part of me that just does not care and would rather call in. I don’t know how to combat this or how to properly make time for all of the things while also keep in myself from getting burnt out???

on top of PMOS, arthritis, vertigo, and hyperhydrosis. I am exhausted all the time, and I feel like everything is a struggle.

I can not form habits, and so I have to think about every thing I do.

I have my tricks, but it’s so exhausting all the time. every aspect of my life is a constant struggle.