DESCRIPTION – Tomorrow, later, can wait, there is no rush… The refrains of procrastinators only look like coincidences. This tendency to procrastinate is always a source of suffering.
Systematically putting off a task, finding excuses not to start here and now, devoting endless time to preparations instead of action… Procrastination is always the art of putting off until tomorrow what we can or should do that day. Laziness according to morality; a defense mechanism against anxiety according to psychology. “And, of course, psychology is right,” says psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Anne Marie Benoit. Unlike laziness, which is a moralistic way of describing effort and difficulty, procrastination is a source of discomfort and even suffering.
Awakening of painful emotions
For Ellen Hendricksen, psychologist and author of the article on (1), “procrastination is not so much avoiding the task as avoiding the negative emotions associated with it.” For example, some families emphasize…
Source: Le Figaro
