Project anxiety

>Be me
>Own boat
>Become super ambitious dismantling half the boat for renovation
>Slip into depression and burnout
>Not able to sail to relax
>Everytime I start a job on the boat it fails
>Don't have enough energy to keep going
>Half year passes
>Jobs wear me out, all fun in diy disappears
>Some jobs finally complete, bad luck happens and they get destroyed
>Other jobs that cost a lot of time and money I finish with poor results because of lack of focus and patience

Since then every project causes me to have a nervous breakdown. I rush things, get anxious/angry/sad at the slightest inconveniences, am overloaded with anxiety for failing, always frick up in some slight way which causes me to get angry at myself.

Any1 here experience the same? What do? I just did a project on my car, restoring the spare wheel boot. One of the plastic hinges broke off and I fashioned a new one out of plastic. Caught myself entering a nervous breakdown shortly after starting. Had to sit myself down, accept that I need to take the time to do this thing and let myself try to enjoy it. Job is now complete and it was fun. Heat bended the plastic hinge and glued it in place.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sell the boat, don't bite more than you can chew and don't be a little b***h who cries everytime something goes wrong.
    >muh depression
    >muh burnout
    >muh anxiety
    gay.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      gays are the only people that don't have depression, get burnout, or have anxiety. They are too fabulous for that shit. You frickin homosexual.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You are pathetic. You are the homosexual

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Thats literally a burn-out what you discribe. Get some help or bite through and every time you get angry, stop being angry and laugh about yourself, because you let your emotions capture you.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >i broke me boot and cant fix it halp
    deserved
    >WANX OY

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Go slower, less intimidating. I did the same with a project car - had the thing half way disassembled and it felt incredibly daunting to piece it back together. If there's a part of the project that you absolutely can't do yourself, make a craigslist ad asking for help from someone more qualified. Maybe a hard pill to swallow, but better than abandoning your project entirely.
    Your confidence in DIY activities will return you just need to take baby steps

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >get angry at the slighteat inconveniences
    i feel this, but only when you have mating tapers or running fits that suddenly become cold-welded from the previous owner being an absolute Black person and you have to find some janky ass "bake it in the oven and then tap it 3 times on the end and click your heels to go to kansas" shit to even have a hope of fixing it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >only when you have mating tapers
      You should put aside your petty emotions and either leave them alone, or help them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nice wiener, I can already feel my bussy drippin

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Get therapy

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This isn't just you. I'm also great at starting projects, but then loose interest in the project. I have 1/2 completed projects all over the place. Eventually, don't even see that 1/2 painted room or incomplete cabinets.

    I'm not gonna lie, it's a character flaw and you (and I) need to get over it. Suck it up buttercup. Etc. Watch / read some Tony Robbins. It might help.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    maybe do more sport? Anyway, my solution is to see a big project as 1000 small projects. its easier to finish 3 small things in 1 hour than 1 big thing in 3 weeks and gives way more confidence.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >1000 small projects.

      also, make lists of these sub-projects so you get the satisfaction of checking things off regularly. and if you do it in a computer file with dates it can be fun to look back at your progress and see how things went faster or slower than you had anticipated.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Im not the type who puts the plan on paper. The plan has to be an active thing in my head, or else its dead or just a bunch of meaningless words. The last thing I need when doing a project is to spend the project time and energy on something that is not contributing to progress

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I get this way all the time. My fix is to go stare judgmentally at the nearest heard of normans and remind myself that an easy 90% of them would not even know who to call to perform the works I was performing, much less perform the works themselves. Sure I'm a tard, but I'll take smartest kid on the short bus over paying for oil changes or eating detergent pods any day of the week.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Definitely been there OP, it took me 9 and a bit years to finish my car restoration project. All but gave up on it for about 2 and a bit years near the middle somewhere from the sads and lack of motivation. But you have to never truly give up, always hold a tiny bit of hope somewhere and keep the image in your mind of yourself enjoying the boat out on the water one day. That's what I did and now the car is my daily driver and I get compliments on it everywhere. All of the misery is then forgotten.

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