Symptoms:
- Main:
- Inability to be productive; manifests itself in the following manners:
- browsing aimlessly on the internet
- online shopping spree
- compulsively listening to music
- talking to others as a way of delaying productivity
- Other (happens on occasion):
- heart palpitations
- nausea
- shortness of breath
- headache
- loss of appetite
The patient will have to be evaluated and monitored by someone with whom he/she is around most of the time. The evaluator will have to observe the patients' habits, making note when any of the above described symptoms appear. This is done over a 2-week period. If the main symptom occurred during this period with a frequency of 6 or more times, the patient is said to have PID.
Treatment:
No known treatments. (Suggestions are welcome)
Usually, when a work-related catastrophic event happens as a result of PID (e.g. failing an exam), the patient will take the necessary means to ensure PID doesn't affect him/her. But this is only temporary, as the severity of the event goes down, the symptoms generally return.
Prognosis:
PID tends to go away on its own. However, recurrence is likely, as described above. Because there are no documented cases in history before today, this prognosis may not be accurate.
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On a different note:
I've updated my blog template today! Here are the changes:
- Post Title Color (Before: Orange, Now: Blue), Link colors (Before: blue, Now: red-orange)
- Blog Archives (now instead of "Previous Posts", you can click on the drop down arrow by a month to see all the posts within that month)
- Google AdSense! With this, I'll be making money (albeit in minimal amounts) whenever someone clicks on the ads that I've allowed Google to place in my blog
- Polls! I will post a new poll every 2 weeks, and when I make a new poll, I will post the results of the previous poll. The poll will be located underneath my profile, before the blog archives. All voting will be anonymous.
2 comments:
I have the opposite problem. When I have a ton of work, I can focus like no one's business, but when I only have a few things to do, I'll put them off and do a slack job.
Was that me that posted up there? I've no memory.
Anyway -- you're serious about this?? Not to sound mean, but this is typical American mentality: classify some behaviour of theirs as a disorder or syndrome. Like ADD. Or RLS.
I've learned that I cannot do work in my room because of all the distractions you mentioned. So I leave. Amazing results! I get work done. You just have to learn how to avoid being around things that do distract you.
Doing work is painful, and the only way to get it done is to push through it. I'd rather go the easy comfortable route by browsing the web, reading, listening to music, etc. But when I do slack I catch myself, suck it up and get the work done. It does require a large amount of mental discipline. If you have that, good. If not, maybe you're lazy? Or it just needs to be improved. Discipline, discipline.
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