Productivity Hacks Don’t Work When You Have Mental Illness

But there are other strategies that can help you get things done

Jenny J. Chen
Elemental
Published in
5 min readApr 10, 2019

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YYou’re sitting at your desk, unable to do anything but keep sitting as thoughts float like thick clouds through your brain. There’s a looming deadline ahead, but try as you might, you can’t bring yourself to pay attention to the computer screen in front of…

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Jenny J. Chen
Elemental

Writer. Words in The Atlantic, NYTimes.com, Washington Post, NPR, Smithsonian, Pacific Standard, etc.