Do you have trouble with unstructured time?

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I find that when I have "free time" I really don't know what to do with it. I end up writing, which is my obsession, or reading, but I can't seem to get anything productive done. If I'm not in the mood to write or read, I actually panic while I have a stretch of free time. I may just sit at my computer and stare at it, but my mind is very busy thinking, "What should I do? What should I do?" I know it's weird. Just seeing if I'm alone in this.

I tend to spend too much time with my obsessions. In fact, I forget to eat so my weight drops dramatically. Then, I have eating binges to gain back the lost weight.
Homework never gets my priority, which is why I should have been done with school last year but still attend.

Wating equals panic attacks for me, so this is why I try to schedule my classes as close together as possible, and if I do have an hour off between two classes, I will just go sit in the room my next class is in for an hour, rather than going back to my dorm. This is precisely why I hate college life. It's very hard for me to adjust to. I'm a sophomore and I still am not adjusted. I loved high school because you went to the same class every single day, the classes started and began at the same time every day, and there weren't any breaks in between. But in college, there's just this incredibly long stretch of time, you have different classes on different days, and some days you may not have any classes until the late afternoon, so you sit around worrying all day. Not good. And I can't ever get anything done during these breaks, unless it's homework I blew off that I must get done by the time the class starts, because I'm too busy worrying about being late and wondering where I'm supposed to be...
-OddDuckNash99-

Yes I have a lot of problems with time. It's best when I'm obsessed because I just do that thing to the exclusion of all others. But then I don't do any housework and hardly eat except really unhealthy stuff. I hate waiting around. Drives me bonkers! I tend to arrange appointments for mid-morning because then I have time to wake up and sort my brain out and then just GO! and the afternoon is then free and I can relax and not have to be anxious.

Yes I just sort of disintegrate.

I always end up wasting it.

Same HERE! My main obsession NOW I guess is Spoken Languages, outside of things like this. I always keep resolving, and I did YESTERDAY(without reading this), to structure my time, but I never do. 8-(

Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute sagen alle faulen Leute!

(Tomorrow, Tomorroe, just not today say all the laxy people!)

Steve

I'm currently obsessed with philosophy, and end up thinking all night, untill I realise its morning, I'm very thirsty and realy should go to bed...


I also attend to college, and the (seemingly) random time there makes me go nuts. I sometimes just leave school for a few days just so I can get some structure in my head.

I get bored very easily. I used to fill said time with watching movies or surfing the web, but even that gets old after a while. The last week or so, I've been engrossed in WP forums.

At no point do I do any of the six billion things that I should be doing. This only bothers me later, when I'm busy, and wishing I'd done something earlier.

I live for unstructured time.To me ,it means ,no obligations.No apointments to make or go to,no work to get ready for and be to on time.I hate time.Time is not on my side.Time disappears before I have done everything I want and certainly everything I "should"...like clean and organize the closet and piles of papers and clothes.

I did hate the "time" inbetween two things I had to do.It meant I couldnt get lost in my thoughts or interests.....that certainly sucks.I think it was worse when I was younger.Time just moves sloooooower when you are young.I didnt have the freedom to pursue my interests and make my own schedule for "obsessions" but had to be on beck and call for my parents.Then time would drag from one of their asinine assigned activities to the next time they would call me to"get them a glass of soda"....getting immersed in an obsession is being lost to time.....I love it.

I do have a bad tendency to waste time on mundane things when I could work on something better and more productive to my future interests. I only use free time efficiently when I have immediate tasks to complete such as college work, important tasks like chores, etc.

Heaps. I'm happiest when I live in situations where time is sturctured for me.

I like structured enviroments, situations, and routines.
No structure = chaos (for me).

When I have spare free time, I rarely know what to do with it. I don't really take the initiative to do something productive or fun. When people ask what I did for the weekend, or what hobbies I enjoy, I usually make something up.

My life is a big, unstructured, chaotic mess. Since I was 13, my life has been spent on the internet, with breaks to do all that important living stuff (eating, sleeping), and then is interrupted by obligations like work or school.

When I don't have the internet, I go insane. And when I do have the internet (which is almost always), if I have to be somewhere that day, I will likely end up rushing because I was too caught up in whatever I was doing, or I'll be late.