Cure for laziness?

**miffy** · 10 August 2008, 16:24

Originally posted by bellymonster View Post

I'm fat because I'm lazy (and I eat too much).
Is there a cure for laziness? I was going to google but well I'm too....

Are you me?

Sitting in the car (usually in a traffic jam), sitting at a desk, sitting on a train or sitting on the sofa is obviously a recipe for disaster but that was my routine for years in permiedom. Getting home stupidly late, stressed out of my skull and eating at the wrong times didn't help matters.

I've started going to the gym again but how long that will last is anyones guess. I have to admit it feels good working up a sweat at 6 in the morning.

I'm less stressed as a contractor, but I really need to stop eating mars bars whilst I'm on the treadmill

**HairyArsedBloke** · 10 August 2008, 17:35

Originally posted by miffy View Post

Getting home stupidly late, stressed out of my skull and eating at the wrong times didn't help matters.

I think many of us can relate to that description of life. I would say: STOP IT. I came within the size of AndyW’s unmentionables of a heart attack through years of living like that. That was 10 years ago and I still haven’t fully recovered and receiving treatment for it. I’m a non-smoker, love my fruit and veg, and enjoy walking which probably saved me.

**bellymonster** · 10 August 2008, 17:36

I think my laziness is affecting my work too, if I can get away with doing nowt, I will. Looking back I reckon I've always been like this and I spent a whole year during permidom sat in a portakabin doing nothing (and I mean nothing) but surfing the web.

I even find myself going out without my mobile phone because I can't be arsed to climb the stairs and fetch it. I think I'm a basket case.

How do you kick yourself out of laziness?

**Spacecadet** · 10 August 2008, 17:52

Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post

I think many of us can relate to that description of life. I would say: STOP IT. I came within the size of AndyW’s unmentionables of a heart attack through years of living like that. That was 10 years ago and I still haven’t fully recovered and receiving treatment for it. I’m a non-smoker, love my fruit and veg, and enjoy walking which probably saved me.

thats strange, i always feel better when i'm stressed and worked hard.
I sleep like a baby and feel good

when there isn't much on and i'm reverting back to natural laziness then the insomnia kicks in and i feel like crap

**HairyArsedBloke** · 10 August 2008, 18:15

Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post

thats strange, i always feel better when i'm stressed and worked hard.
I sleep like a baby and feel good

Well, you are hardly stressed then! You enjoy being busy, like us all.

when there isn't much on and i'm reverting back to natural laziness then the insomnia kicks in and i feel like crap

It’s when you haven’t got anything to do that you are under stress.

Some one is under stress when they are not in full control of their life.

**derekthedalek** · 10 August 2008, 18:19

The solution is...

oh I can't be arsed

**NotAllThere** · 10 August 2008, 18:24

Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post

...Some one is under stress when they are not in full control of their life.

Not sure about that. Not having things under full control, and not knowing what's going to happen a few months down the road is one of the fun things about contracting. I think rather that you get stressed when you have (or feel you have) obligations to fulfil, but (feel you've) not the ability (for whatever reason) to fulfil them. Responsibility without power.

**bogeyman** · 10 August 2008, 18:42

Originally posted by bellymonster View Post

I think my laziness is affecting my work too, if I can get away with doing nowt, I will. Looking back I reckon I've always been like this and I spent a whole year during permidom sat in a portakabin doing nothing (and I mean nothing) but surfing the web.

I even find myself going out without my mobile phone because I can't be arsed to climb the stairs and fetch it. I think I'm a basket case.

How do you kick yourself out of laziness?

I'm normally the last person to recommend handing oneself over to the medics, but what you describe sounds exactly like depression rather than mere laziness.

My brother-in-law was exactly the same a few years ago: No energy, no interest in anything. Everything was too much effort. He was drinking like a fish and sitting there surfing the web all day.

Mild depression has a nasty habit of developing into full-blown clinical depression if not addressed.

Fortunately he went to his GP and then a specialist. After a year or so of SSRIs (Prozac etc.) and some counselling he was fine and has been ever since.

He could never identify an underlying cause for his depression, it just seemed to creep up on him.

**NotAllThere** · 10 August 2008, 19:14

Yeah. I had depression once, as a student. No particular reason and after 6 months went away as quickly as it had come. Fortunately, that gave me a couple of months to catch up on my course work and pass the 2nd year exams. Depression is a horrible illness. Everything is grey and nothing seems worth the effort. Very depressing.

Cure for laziness?