{"id":95291,"date":"2026-10-24T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95291"},"modified":"2026-10-24T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:49:09","slug":"how-procrastination-can-harm-your-physical-and-mental-health-and-practical-tips-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95291","title":{"rendered":"How procrastination can harm your physical and mental health, and practical tips to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/23\/4985cd80-68bc-4ec5-bd7a-8a85555fea7e_5103a38a.jpg?itok=fKuNQvG0&amp;v=1792756878\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHave you made that doctor\u2019s appointment about the lump on your back yet?\u201d your spouse asks. You sheepishly mumble that you have not. Walking past a packed wardrobe \u2013 a daily reminder of a decluttering project put off for months \u2013 you settle onto the sofa to finish binge-watching that new Netflix series.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sound familiar? Procrastination is no big deal; everyone puts off tasks they don\u2019t want to do, right? Wrong, according to Fuschia Sirois, a professor of social and health psychology at Durham University in the UK.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sirois has spent more than 25 years studying procrastination and, while research shows about one in four people procrastinates fairly regularly, she warns the behaviour carries serious, far-reaching consequences.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">\u201cThe harms of procrastination can range from poor career progression and reduced earnings to poor mental health, including higher rates of anxiety, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">stress<\/span> and depression, even poor physical health,\u201d Sirois says.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3371864\/how-procrastination-can-harm-your-physical-and-mental-health-and-practical-tips-stop-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave you made that doctor\u2019s appointment about the lump on your back yet?\u201d your spouse asks. You sheepishly mumble that you have not. Walking past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5672,1714,2956,4810,14219,32096,1182,263],"class_list":["post-95291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-harm","tag-health","tag-mental","tag-physical","tag-practical","tag-procrastination","tag-stop","tag-tips","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}