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Post by june on Dec 17, 2018 1:20:37 GMT
Do you think of yourself as lazy?
I was called lazy for years but was in fact incredibly busy making life livable so to speak. I just didn't do what many others expected of me. Even now knowing a bit about MDD and why I DD, I wouldn't call it lazyness if I escape into a different type of reality. But I am definitely not that always useful to people around me in a normal sense. Nor to myself.
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Post by katie on Dec 17, 2018 15:20:29 GMT
I was never told that I am lazy but that I have no motivation. I get things done when I want to and when my MDD is slowing down for a while. I just have no get up and go in me to set goals in life at the moment plus I was sick last year and still getting help for it so had too slow down.
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Post by alvi on Dec 18, 2018 0:03:26 GMT
I think I'm lazy. I lack motivation and desire. If I had something to work towards, for or with then things may be different. I come from a pretty dysfunctional family so was usually left to do my own thing as a child, I didn't really have to attend school and due to health reasons have never really thought I'd do much in life I so never really bothered trying anything. Now I want things to change but old habits die hard and I constantly give up and procrastinate by daydreaming. I often feel like I need someone constantly looking over my shoulder telling me to get things done and basically help retrain my brain. I need a babysitter I guess!
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Post by june on Dec 18, 2018 6:42:37 GMT
That is so interesting. I guess we really think of the term lazy very differently. I think of lazy people as someone who doesn't want or do anything at all, but I am busy most of the time even though I am not always doing what I would do if I was more normal.
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Post by David on Dec 18, 2018 15:50:33 GMT
I don't think I'm lazy but I do feel I lack motivation and discipline. I don't know if anyone sees me as lazy. I know my mom doesn't. There are lots of things I could be doing but I over think things and end up deciding to do nothing.
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Post by fishno7 on Dec 19, 2018 3:40:25 GMT
I am at the period of being called lazy, I don't find much motivation to live with and I get easily distracted. I am quite capable to do the tasks that are planned few days before, but whenever my parents/other people have sudden requests, I would always forget the requests and end up looking lazy and ignorant. In my own perspective, I find my tendency to keep escaping from real life is indeed lazy, but since my college grades are fine, most of my friends never see me as lazy person, even though I tell them I am lol.
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Post by someone on Jan 22, 2020 1:29:05 GMT
I'm called lazy from time to time, but most of the time I'm called crazy for consistently not being on top of things. As far as my parents are concerned, I can't really tell them I daydream all the time because if I do they would want to know what I daydream about, and if they knew that then there will be no sympathy for me, just constantly "you have to stop" and so much more negativity from my family. So they just assume that I'm intentionally messing up and that I'm the bad kind of crazy and that I feel that everything always has to be my way. I feel like they can't possibly believe I'm doing it on purpose because that's ridiculous, but they let themselves get paranoid and so they probably buy into that reasoning. I think it would probably be worse if they just thought I was lazy because I'm used to them calling me crazy,  what they would act like if they thought my main problem was laziness. |
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Post by philippe on Jan 24, 2020 12:49:08 GMT
Yes, I have been called lazy and ineffective. I don't think I am lazy, because I can give very high priority to chores when I need to, and I don't have a lot of fun in life in general.
However I'm often ineffective, because of active daydreaming and the state of "mind wandering" daydream lead me to.
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what they would act like if they thought my main problem was laziness.