Introductions and Procrastination Discussion

I've been dealing with procrastination all my life, but for so many years it was either a joke, or a criticism, or too shameful /scary to even think about, or all of these.

Real solutions, real help, real understanding have been a long time coming.

Hi All, 

I almost never post on this forum because I find that I forget to use it as much as I could, but there's a topic that's been bothering me so much and I don't know where else to find camaraderie around it.

I absolutely, severely compulsively stay up late at night regardless of how tired and sleep-deprived I am. This is NOT insomnia and it drives me crazy when well-meaning people in recovery (or not) try to suggest ideas for falling asleep - my problem is not falling asleep, not at all! My problem is getting myself to go to bed.

“The Prosperity Prayer”

Dear God —

I surrender my financial affairs and concerns about money to your Divine care and love.

I ask that you remove my worries, anxieties and fears about money, and replace them with faith.

I know and trust that my debts will be paid and money will flow into my life.

I have only to look to nature to see proof of the abundance you provide.

I release all negative thoughts about money, and know that prosperity is my true state.

Hello everyone

It's been almost a year that I'd said hi for the first time, followed by a long silence. I've not been inactive about my life, but I've not got there either. I'll get there someday!

Hi, I'm Phoebe and I am a procrastinator.

So it took me almost 25 weeks to sit and actually write this introduction. I guess I wanted to write it properly and to tell my story but I'll try not to indulge my perfectionism :)  And anyway my story isn't something unique so it's not that interesting.

I'd like to thank Pro and all the members of this community for your help and just being here. You all are such a great inspiration to me. I'm here not for so long but I think it's already been very useful to me. Thank you! :)

I can’t afford professional counseling right now, so
hopefully I can use this site to get help. 
Sorry about the length, I get too verbose when it’s about myself.

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Hi, I'm new here- second time posting today. I did check in. Just like everyone else here, trying to break out of the vicious cycle of putting things off, on and on, until they pile up and come crashing down, literally and figuratively. I'm off to look around- thanks for having me! :rolleyes:

This seems as good a spot as any for my first post.  

I just borrowed the book "The Procrastination Equation" from the library and read chapters 1 - 2.  Of course I should have been doing a very important project I've been putting off for at least 2 months.

I finally got started on it today, primarily because circumstances forced me to.

It's great to be here. A little about myself:

I'm a 40-something woman who started recovery officially about 4 months ago, with Codependents Anonymous. My main issue was love/fantasy addiction. 

I'm a long term procrastinator, but everything has been made much much worse by developing severe depression following the death of my husband 5 months ago.  I've been sitting in my office this morning having cleared all the easy bits of work, and then totally failing to get going on the backlog of report writing.  I finally got started on one report, but it's like wading through treacle.  My bosses are being very supportive and saying "do what you can", but that's not very much.