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by barking_biscuit 1441 days ago
Also it's worth noting that these conditions often travel with friends. I have ADHD and the switch to fully remote work nearly wrecked me completely. It took a long time to work it out but although I've always known I have some anxiety related issues I didn't realise to what agree it might have been affecting me. My strategies for getting myself unblocked to that point had always heavily relied on physically talking with a coworker due to the immediate nature of the feedback and in a fully remote setting I found myself really struggling to reach out. My meds had become ineffective and I decided to try and switch and overnight I could push through the pang of anxiety I felt when I needed to reach out and remote working has become not a problem for me.

These things can interact in really subtle and complex ways but when you have effective treatment you realise just how damaging these conditions are to your life and just how not normal the level and degree of your "procrastination" is.