Inverse and causal relationships: Stress and Procrastination

As much as I LOVE my job-I mean I must love it seeing as I am still here after more than two years of overwork and stress- I sometimes want to pack it all up and leave the country. In particularly, during busy periods (like now) I occasionally stop and take time to ponder, Why is it that the more I have to do, the more I stress and the more I stress, the more I procrastinate? This is truly perverse as procrastination doesn''t solve the problem of "Will I ever finish?" and results in there being even more to stress about.

I will be sure to put "procrastinate" on my WHAT NOT TO DO IN MY NEXT LIFE list!