«Procrastination has many symptoms, anxiety being one. In many ways, we are

addicted to time the way gamblers are to money or alcoholics to liquor. We love time.

Let me repeat that. Procrastinators love time. Why waste it doing something we don’t

want to? Our motto: “If you can do it tomorrow, why do it today?”»

<http://open.salon.com/blog/from_the_midwest/2009/02/02/is_procrastination_a_mental_disorder>

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«These procrastinators include using the following:

Avoidance: Where we avoid the locale or situation where the task takes place

(e.g., a graduate student avoiding going to University).

Distraction: Where we engage or immerse ourselves in other behaviors or

actions to prevent awareness of the task (e.g., intensive videogame playing or

Internet surfing)

Trivialization: We reframe the intended but procrastinated task as being not

that important (e.g., "I'm putting off going to the dentist, but you know what?

Teeth aren't that important.").

Downward counterfactuals: We compare our situation with those even worse

(e.g., "Yes, I procrastinated and got a B- in the course, but I didn't fail like one

other student did."). Upward counterfactual is considering what would have

happened if we didn't procrastinate.

Humour: Making a joke of one's procrastination, that the slapstick or slipshod

quality of one's aspirational goal striving is funny.

Reframing: Pretending that getting an early start on a project is harmful to one's

performance and leaving the work to the last moment will produce better results

(e.g., "I'm most creative at 4:00 AM in the morning without sleep.").

Denial: Pretending that procrastinatory behaviour is not actually

procrastinating, but a task which is more important than the avoided one.»

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination>

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«In 2007, it was reported that Xu Yan died in Jinzhou after

playing online games persistently for over 2 weeks during

the Lunar New Year holiday. Later 2007 reports indicated

that a 30-year-old man died in Guangzhou after playing

video games continuously for three days. […] In

Jacksonville, Florida, Alexandra Tobias pleaded guilty to

second-degree murder for shaking her baby to death. She

told investigators that the baby boy's crying had

interrupted her while she was playing a Facebook game

called FarmVille. She was sentenced to 50 years in

December 2010.»

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game

_addiction>