Low Frustration Tolerance
Irrationalities Related to Low Frustration Tolerance or Short- Range Hedonism
Strong insistence on going mainly or only for the pleasures of the moment instead of those of the present and future.
Obsession with immediate gratifications, whatever the costs.
Whining and strongly pitying oneself when one finds it necessary to surrender short-range pleasures for other gains.
Ignoring the dangers inherent in going for immediate pleasures.
Striving for ease and comfort rather than for greater satisfactions that require some temporary discomfort.
Refusing to work against a harmful addiction because of the immediate discomfort of giving it up.
Refusing to continue with a beneficial or satisfying program of activity because one views its onerous aspects as too hard and devoutly believes that they should not exist.
Chomping at the bit impatiently when one has to wait for or work for a satisfying condition to occur.
Procrastinating about doing activities that one knows would turn out beneficially and that one has promised oneself to do.
Significantly consuming a scarce commodity that one knows one will very much want in the future.
From The Albert Ellis reader