Is Procrastination a Habit or Disorder?

“Chronic procrastinators avoid revealing information about their abilities, prefer menial tasks, make poor time estimates, tend to focus on the past and do not act on their intentions. These characteristics have been related to low self-esteem, perfectionism, non-competitiveness, self-deception, self-control, self-confidence, depression and anxiety” (https://serendipstudio.org/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/jmaryasis.html).

The act of procrastinating exist in all of us, but in some it is almost could be considered a disorder because of the consistency a person procrastinates. If a person is assigned multiple tasks and procrastinates all of them would it even be called a habit at that point or a disorder. Procrastination could be considered a disorder to some but could definitely be considered a very bad habit.

With the possibility of being able to get rid of a bad procrastination habit overtime with lots of self discipline it can no longer be considered a disorder but a very strong, formed overtime habit. Although, some character traits have been found to be related with procrastination such as, “low self-esteem, perfectionism, non-competitiveness, self-deception, self-control, self-confidence, depression and anxiety”. These character traits most likely being the cause of why the person procrastinates so often give a good argument that procrastination could be a linked disorder because of certain character traits.

Because of the ability to alter a persons procrastination problem and create self discipline this makes procrastination not a disorder but only a but a formed habit because of a persons character traits.