The syndrome of 'rubber' is always late, which can be a disease

Surely one of us has also encountered the "late appointment experts". Even, there are people who sometimes have to . be "crazy" because the "time rubber" is their friends, relatives or the other half.

But do not rush to blame them, because they may have suffered from a form of disease called 'chronic late syndrome' - Chronic lateness Syndrome. Specifically, how is this disease and is the patient likely to be cured? Let's learn about this strange syndrome through the article below.

What is a "chronic late" syndrome?

Chronic delay syndrome is a brain-related syndrome. People with this syndrome are almost always late on schedule, unable to arrange, calculate the time for accuracy. The case of a man named Jim Dunbar.

Mr. Jim Dunbar suffers from chronic delay syndrome

As soon as he was 5 years old, he often suffered errors of going to school late, even never coming on time when going to soccer or attending parties.

Growing up, this made it worse, he let his girlfriend wait for hours on his first appointment, he also lost his job because he quit the meeting, and even went to the funeral after the celebration.

If the delay is due to the habit, the person is worthy of being ostracized if not changed soon. However, people with syndromes are different from time to time, every day, every hour they always live in fear of being late.

These people always fear every time they book a plane ticket, or can lose sleep in panic because they are afraid of late appointments. Even when they are under pressure from people around them, they always have difficulty arranging time, no matter how big the motivation is.

Why is it difficult to change?

Chronic latency syndrome is related to the brain's "blind spots" - a point where people cannot make the best effort, or identify errors in calculations and choices. This makes change extremely difficult.

Fortunately, people usually have only 1-2 blind spots. Once we have identified them, we can make plans and systems to minimize the impact, even avoiding these points forever. Guy Winch, a psychologist, gave a concrete example, which is his patient.

The 40-year-old man always takes 10-15 minutes late every therapy session, and always feels stressed, irritable when he arrives.

When asked about arranging time to the counseling room, the man replied: 'From my office to the subway station about 5 minutes walk. It takes 10 minutes on the train, and the consulting room is one building from the train station. I spent another 5 minutes in case the train arrived late. So I tried to go 20 minutes before the appointment. '

Although it sounds reasonable, the reality is not so, because he still arrives 10-15 minutes late. The reason is due to the "blind spots" in the calculation.

First, this man only takes into account the main things - going to the train station, waiting for the train and the time to take the train - while the smaller events also take a lot of time: such as registering with an officer building a building, waiting for an elevator, or time out of the train station when it is too crowded. These small pieces of time when added up can take up to 20 minutes.

The second blind spot is in his own mind, which is also the typical blind spot for people who are late when they say 'I try to go before the 20-minute appointment.'

If all of his expectations were correct, he would have deviated a little too much time - 5 minutes. Besides, telling myself that I 'tried' instead of 'forced' to go ahead of time also greatly increased my chances of being late.

Several ways to overcome the 'time rubber'

In addition to the above symptoms, there are a number of other common blind spots of patients with late appointments. It is always assumed that the amount of time it will take for a job to forget to assume that there will be traffic jams, or always rely on someone else's time and make an appointment without spacing out.

For example, if you make an appointment to go to a computer repair house around 3-5pm, then assume you will go at 5pm without thinking that it may be 5pm, the repairman just arrived.

It is often said that to overcome 'rubber' is very simple, you just need to arrange a reasonable time. But for people with 'late chronic' syndrome, this is not simple. The only thing they can do is try to identify their blind spots and find ways to fix it .

Late appointments can cause tension and friction in family and social life. More seriously, work delays can have serious consequences and cause you to fail, lose promotions and even get fired.

So for those patients 'late hours' , clearly identifying 'blind spots' , trying to overcome is essential and beneficial for one's own life and career.

However, there are also incurable cases, when the "late appointment" syndrome is caused by the brain's own fault, as Jim Dunbar's case mentioned above. After conducting a series of tests, medical experts concluded that this delay was affected by a brain disorder.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is similar to a lack of concentration. It made him unable to predict the time. Unfortunately, the disease is still incurable and Jim cannot do anything to get rid of this discomfort despite trying hard enough.