Weird things I've always done. And I lost my password.

[Neia]

I took my pc to be upgraded, and uninstalled my browsers. Then decided to do a cleanup on my phone and uninstalled my browser there too

To make things even better, I hadn't written my password down anywhere.

Then, the "wonderful" PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) decided to attack. It's so annoying I feel angered because I now know what's happening, but I still do it.
I watched a video that says we can't stop it outright, but can find ways to trick our brains into doing the things we need.
I need one of those tricks!

Tonight my curiosity won! So... yay?

I was lying down on my bed, and suddenly realised I was just lying there with my left arm stretched up, as if I was reaching towards the ceiling. I've always done this, don't know why, but it's weird.
Is it some sort of stimming?

 

[lunarious]

I heard stimming comes from stimuli. Stimulating.

Edit: Hi, good night

 

[Neia]

I heard stimming comes from stimuli. Stimulating.

Edit: Hi, good night

Good morning

I know what stimming is, I do a lot of it. But hadn't really thought about this arm thing.

I guess because I'd never really paid attention to it, until I looked at my arm yesterday, and saw it just there, stuck up vertically, motionless, like it was doing an impersonation of a telephone post.

it looked weird and I asked myself why I was doing that, why I always do that.
It's like sitting on my hands, it just feels good.

So I thought if this could be considered stimming s well.

 

[lunarious]

I wonder if FJ types as INFJ or ESFJ move their hands alot when communicating.

I'm INFP and i do this movement with my arm, and other things, with my arm.

I'll sleep again

 

[lunarious]

Then, the "wonderful" PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) decided to attack. It's so annoying I feel angered because I now know what's happening, but I still do it.

I watched a video that says we can't stop it outright, but can find ways to trick our brains into doing the things we need.

I need one of those tricks!

What's PDA?

 

[Aspychata]

Pathological Demand Avoidance

 

[Neia]

What's PDA?

PDA=Pathological Demand Avoidance

It's a thing that explains a lot of me
Why sometimes I'm coughing my lungs out (I have asthma) and look at my inhaler, and instead of using it so I can stop coughing and start breathing more easily, I instead shrug my shoulders and keep on coughing
Why I can feel hungry but will only go eat when my stomach actually starts hurting or I start feeling faint from hunger.
Why I can look at my water bottle, sitting right next to me, think that I should drink something because I'll be dehydrated, but will shrug my shoulders and only drink water when I'm dehydrated enough for my blood pressure to be altered and I've gotten a headache.

Honestly... learning about this has helped. But I still feel frustrated by myself

 

[Outdated]

PDA=Pathological Demand Avoidance

It's something I battled with all my life too, and I only found out there was a name for it last year.

 

[Aspychata]

l believe l met someone with it. l have procrastination demand avoidance, like l looked at school term reports due, and would put it off until the very last week, okay it could be PDA also l guess. l use to do it with my taxes, put it
off until the very week they were due. It's horrible way to function.

 

[Outdated]

l use to do it with my taxes, put it off until the very week they were due. It's horrible way to function.

For some reason I always found tax returns particularly stressful and quite often didn't submit one even though I was due thousands of dollars in return. Then one year after skipping a few years they calculated all the money they owed me and paid interest on it as well. That was handy.

But after winding up and closing a business many years ago they started harassing me for tax statements that couldn't exist as there was no longer a business. I argued with a lady on the phone and told her that the business was no longer, she said "Yes, I have all that documentation in front of me, but you still have to submit BAS statements.". I told her she was wrong and when she argued with me some more I said "I'm terribly sorry but I no longer wish to subscribe. Goodbye." and I hung up on her. She phoned me straight back and started yelling at me. I said "Have a nice day!" and hung up on her again. That was more than 20 years ago, I haven't submitted a tax return since. I made sure I always paid slightly more tax than is required so they'll never take me to court, it would make them look silly taking me to court and ending up having to pay me money.

 

[Mary Terry]

took my pc to be upgraded, and uninstalled my browsers. Then decided to do a cleanup on my phone and uninstalled my browser there too

To make things even better, I hadn't written my password down anywhere

I know I'm not supposed to write down passwords where someone can find them, but I do it anyway. There are post-it notes all over my laptop and desktop computers with usernames, passwords, account numbers and everything else in case I need them. I'm not concerned about someone breaking into our house, getting past the security system, finding the sticky notes all over the computer monitors and, worst of all for them - trying to read my atrocious handwriting. Good luck with that, thief!

 

[Cutesie]

It's something I battled with all my life too, and I only found out there was a name for it last year.

I found out today! It's the biggest problem that I have, affects every aspect of living, and is very debilitating.