Anxiety & Self Doubt

[Supanova]

Hi Guys & Gals,

New member here,

I am posting today for the first time so wording together thoughts and feelings in itself alone causes a flutter of stress.

So for aslong as I can remember I have suffered with feelings of self doubt,It began in my teenage years of highschool,relatively normals issues like getting good grades making my parents happy,but as I left school moved away and gained independence my self esteem dropped.Like I would high points in my life where I thought the world was amazing other days I would question every decision I ever made,just doubting myself.I had no problems obtaining employment but my issues laid in keeping a job,it was like there was a honeymoon period where I felt on top of the world say the first 3 months then shortly after myself doubt would kick in followed by unexplained anxiety,for me I never had the guts to speak up to say somebody help me,for the fear of being ridiculed.many years on I still suffer through Jobs with the same fears of failure in the back of my mind.my question is how do we block out the feelings that tell us we're not good enough to succeed ?

Thanks

[thomas1029609]

Hi

i just want to say welcome and well I'm probably not in the best place to give advice I can say you are not alone and have gone through it and going through it too, i at one point was floating through temp jobs and as soon as it was too hard or an issue arose on to the next. the one thing i know i do is read into things to much and over analogize things (as in i just started that reading and re-reading and re-typing the same sentence trying to improve it fix mistakes) and then doubt it and the spelling and on it goes ... on a work status the documentation i was meant to do yesterday well dident get much done second guessing everything and doubting myself with everything i typed.

looking back now i see i must of have bits of depression throughout my childhood id say the way when i was younger to overcome the self doubt would be to take the fist idea and run with it and focus on it and not option 2 or 3 or 4 ect

easy to say but then once you get older and then stress / anxiety and the whole being an adult responsibilities... buying a car / house / job and then add the cloudiness of depression that is the hard bit dealing with the self doubt

Take care,