Whenever work is assigned to me or if there is an expectation that I do something, I get extremely anxious about doing it. It's not even just the feeling of wanting to avoid it - when I'm actually doing it, my heart starts racing and I'm basically holding my breath (sometimes physically) to try to get through it. If I break focus for even a second, the anxiety becomes front and center, I get overwhelmed and will inevitably have to quit.

The actual difficulty of what I'm doing is irrelevant. I do this even for things that are super simple and easy. In my free time, I'm often doing things extraordinarily more complex, difficult, time consuming, and that require large amounts of mental focus. I often do it for fun. But if I was assigned to doing it, like for a class, I'd feel overwhelmed and would procrastinate. I've even done this for things that were suppose to be enjoyable. For example, I took a golf college PE class a 2 years ago where I needed to play several rounds of golf by myself before the term ended as part of my grade. I like golf. This was suppose to be a stress reliever. Instead, I procrastinated on it and dreaded going.

So far, the only way I have got around this is procrastinating until the last second, where the anxiety of not getting it done in time outweighs the anxiety of having to do it. Then, 99% of the time, I realize what I was tasked to do was not hard and that I could have easily knocked it out quickly instead of dedicating so much time to freaking out about it. Rinse and repeat.