Is your anxiety making you procrastinate? 5 signs to know

Is your anxiety making you procrastinate? 5 signs to know

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Published on May 05, 2024 02:57 PM IST

  • From the fear of failure to the feeling that we are not capable enough, here are a few ways by which anxiety can trigger procrastination.

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Anxiety is the condition where a person is constantly worried about daily activities. Some of the most common symptoms of anxiety are nausea, headache, thumping heart and trembling. Anxiety also makes us postpone our tasks because of the fear of failure. “It’s easy to think you’re just being lazy, or struggling to manage your time well, but there is often a deeper process happening inside when you choose to procrastinate. When you’re confronted with a task that needs to be done, you’re also confronted with underlying emotions and limiting beliefs operating under the surface,” wrote Therapist Carrie Howard.(Unsplash)

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We often feel scared that we will not get the desired outcome if we do a task – hence we try to postpone the task for later. (Shutterstock)
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We often feel scared that we will not get the desired outcome if we do a task – hence we try to postpone the task for later. (Shutterstock)

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The fear of failure is triggered by anxiety. Anxiety makes us feel that we will definitely fail at what we do. Hence, we procrastinate. (Pixabay)
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The fear of failure is triggered by anxiety. Anxiety makes us feel that we will definitely fail at what we do. Hence, we procrastinate. (Pixabay)

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We doubt our abilities and think that we are not adequately capable of finishing the task at hand. This also harms our self-confidence. (Photo by Bastian Riccardi on Pexels)
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We doubt our abilities and think that we are not adequately capable of finishing the task at hand. This also harms our self-confidence. (Photo by Bastian Riccardi on Pexels)

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We fear that we will be judged or criticised for our quality of work. This further makes us feel that we are not good enough. (Unsplash)
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We fear that we will be judged or criticised for our quality of work. This further makes us feel that we are not good enough. (Unsplash)

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When we think of the amount of effort involved in doing the task, we feel anxious of taking it up in the first place. (Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash)
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When we think of the amount of effort involved in doing the task, we feel anxious of taking it up in the first place. (Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash)

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