Lazy lives or Executive Dysfunction

You’re sitting in a room with something you really want to do, there’s absolutely no logical reason for you to not do it but you just can’t because your brain can’t transition between activities. The amount of times when we have been labelled lazy either by ourself or by someone else because of our inability to do something that needs to be done is astronomical. What most people are unaware of is that there is a term for it and it can be scientifically explained

Executive Dysfunction is an umbrella term for A very wide topic. It's all the shows that you have in your to be watched list but you just never get around to watching them. It's being very hungry but just not getting up to make food or eat food that is already there.

To put it simply, it is the inability to initiate tasks. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for executive functions, like decision making and impulse control.

It's constantly waiting for something to happen and not being able to do anything else because you’re waiting for something to happen.

Now keep in mind the actual difference between laziness and Executive Dysfunction is that you will feel guilty about not doing the task but you still won't be able to do it whereas in laziness, you’re not doing the task on purpose and you feel absolutely no guilt for it since it is on purpose.

Most people are unaware of this due to mental health being a stigma.

Educate yourself and teach others. Talk about mental health because there are innumerable things within mental health that most of us are unaware of but people deal with them on a daily basis.

Remember to ask for help however and whenever you need it. There is always someone.

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Writer: J.J.

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