You want to do the thing, you can do the thing, and you still can't start. Here's what's really happening, and why the guilt is often heavier than the task.

You've been told there's a "right" way to do things — a routine, a schedule, a way of working that everyone else seems to manage just fine. You're not broken for struggling with it. You're just in the wrong space.

You rehearse conversations before you have them. You're exhausted after socializing, even when it went well. If that sounds familiar, you might be masking — and you're not alone in never having had a name for it.