<i>&gt; I feel the writer of the article was confused since they quote &#x27;you don&#x27;t tell a depressed person to be less apathetic&#x27; yet the author seems like they are encouraging emotional management</i><p>Those are not in conflict. A clearer analogy would be, you don&#x27;t tell an alcoholic to just stop drinking. You focus on judgement-free emotional support systems. You go to meetings, you get a chip for making it 24 hours sober, 1 month, etc.<p>I&#x27;m glad you didn&#x27;t need something like that to overcoming procrastination. But a lot of people don&#x27;t need full-on Alcoholics Anonymous to get their drinking in control either. Hardcore procrastinators probably need more.