'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
>Most people experience this from time to time.<p>If you're unlucky enough to be at the tail end of the distribution where basic tasks make you feel this way every day it's no longer called an 'Ugh Field' instead it's called the "Wall of Awful"<p><a href="https://youtu.be/Uo08uS904Rg" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Uo08uS904Rg</a><p>One of the absolute best techniques I've found for breaking it is a trick I learned from DBT called "Improve the moment" where you simply think about what pleasant sensory experience could you introduce right now to make you feel better and then you do that quickly. I find if I put on a song or smell the lemon scented dishwashing liquid or run my hand under warm water it helps me to get moving on a task. It's not fool proof but it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.