Have you considered the possibility that you may have ADHD-inattentive-type?
There are online tests based on DSM criteria that can show you if it’s worth looking deeper into, such as this one:
There are online tests based on DSM criteria that can show you if it’s worth looking deeper into, such as this one:
People with ADHD can most definitely be productive and generally considered accomplished. They just tend to have put a lot of effort in, their whole lives, in order to get there, and may have developed a lot of cool techniques to get there. Treatment itself is about improving these techniques (and finding helpful medications, the two parts work together.)
I'm quite scared of medications, tbh, but I'd very much like to explore improving techniques.
On the non-medicine side, techniques like bullet journaling are useful, also having “accountability partners” — friends or groups you report in with each week to check on each other’s progress; things like that.
But it can just as well be that you have depression and anxiety disorders or anxiety based personality disorders. (E.g.: Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder which includes dysfunctional traits like perfectionism that can interfere with your ability to complete projects).
What I am trying to say is that if you feel that psychological counseling can help you figure out why you are stuck in life or some other thing in life in particular, please do not try to diagnose yourself. Go to a good hospital that specialises in mental health and get a proper diagnoses by a qualified psychiatrist.
It is very easy to go the wrong track and come to the wrong conclusion while self-diagnosing yourself as many symptoms overlap with many related mental ailments.