What medication can I use to help with chronic procrastination?

I recommend an egg timer. Set it for 15 minutes and do some work. When it goes off, stop. Take a break and reset it. Tackle one task at a time, setting the timer for longer and longer periods.

The Wellbutrin is for depression, most likely. One symptom of depression is the inability to cope with daily activity. Speak to your prescriber and let them know it is not very effective for you.

Keep fighting! You can survive this!

Good luck.

No, procrastination is not a disorder. Your reasons for procrastinating could be related to anxiety, but not necessarily at levels that require medication. You may be unsure of your soon to be adult life and want to comfort and security of being a teenager to last forever. Well, tough luck. You're growing up. You say that you are intelligent when it comes to school work. Perhaps your procrastinating because doing things at the last minute gives you a challenge. When I was in high school, I found the work to be boring, redundant and too easy. I too would leave things until the last minute or not bother at all. I mean, what's the point when it's just repeating yourself and your class all over again? University work is much more interesting and allows for creative freedom and individual thought that high school does not. If you want that, then get to work. If you've screwed up too much, take a summer course and enroll in community college for the first year and then transfer. I have to warn you though community college is just like high school even the mentality of students at community colleges is equivalent to adolescent chimpanzees.

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lol...that's funny i was tellin my counselor the other day about my procrastination problem.......i'm on celexa,which does nothing but make me cranky.....they act as if procrastination is just a way of life and there is no treatment...yes it is a problem....when you wait until the last minute to do something....then finding yourself having a anxiety attack when trying to cram so much stuff into one day.....♥♥♥♥

None! See procrastination, in section 26, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DEPRESSION: My standard post follows, but, if you are young, antidepressants are unsuitable for young people. See depression treatments, at ezy build, below, in section 2, and consult a doctor, to eliminate thyroid problems, etc. as possible contributing factors: also seek a referral to a therapist using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy. It is your decision, and yours alone, as to whether to take any antidepressants offered, but, before you do, read section 1, and check medications out at www.drugs.com so you will be on the lookout for side effects, like sexual dysfunction. My strong recommendation, however, is to follow the advice of my doctor, his associate, and also Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP, and Dr. Mercola, at www.mercola.com and many others: avoid antidepressants (pages 2V, and 2Z refer, & antidepressant websites: page 2). The reasons why we all share the same view on this are explained in full, as you will find, if you read the whole section. All of their advice, (except prayer, because many people are not religious) I have incorporated into the "core treatments", including occupational therapy, relaxation techniques, and exercise, with others as options, such as the supplements: Inositol, or SAMe, or herbal remedies, like St. John's wort. If you are diagnosed with clinical (major) depression, antidepressants may be necessary for a while, which will give the treatments time to become effective. The antidepressants themselves need at least several days, or even weeks to begin becoming effective. It's a good idea to taper off them slowly, with medical advice, after several months, say, to a couple of years, at most, because they are only effective in the long term for about 30% of people. Because of this, you would be well advised to begin the treatments immediately, and maintain them. I'd just thank your mental health care provider, and pocket the prescription, trying the treatments for a few months, to see if they are sufficient for you, before considering filling it (unless clinically depressed, and having great difficulty functioning, or suicidal, in which case I'd take them). If the amount of daylight you have been exposed to recently has reduced, perhaps due to the change of seasons, see Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) in section 2, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris and, instead of taking 4 Omega 3 fish oil supplements, daily; replace 2 of them with cod liver oil supplements for the winter months only! (or, as probably a better alternative to the 2 cod liver oil supplements: 1 teaspoonful of cod liver oil, with a little butter, to ensure its use; I take mine on sourdough rye bread, or toast, covered with fishpaste, and pepper, to mask the strong taste). Consider having your doctor test your vitamin D levels, using the 25 Hydroxyvitamin D test. Optimal levels are 50 - 55 ng/ml (115 - 125 nmol/l. It should be above 32 ng/ml. Those people who receive adequate exposure to sunlight, daily, won't need the vitamin D from cod liver oil, but many people, particularly those in latitudes far from the equator, find this difficult, to achieve.

Check with your doctor -maybe you need to up your script.

good luck -I love the egg timer idea - try that!