The Dangers of Self-Doubt And How It Can Break You
Self-doubt is a position nobody wants to be in. This is the factor that impedes the development of character and self improvement. This is where we do not want to be – and once we surrender to this, there is almost no turning back. It is a dark place, treacherous and full of feelings of depression, anger and irrational fear that can sink us further into this hole in our life. What happens when you experience overwhelming self-doubt?
You feel that you are no longer yourself. You look in the mirror and can barely recognise the man or woman that stares back at you, haggard, shoddy. The person in the mirror mocks you, calls you a failure and the floor has overtaken your vision as you look down – and you find inveritable truth in those miserable thoughts. You have lost all control. You cannot do anything and are stuck in a negative cycle that overtakes you – wave after wave that crashes into your once solid foundation and now has whittled it away to nary more than a beach of eroding sand – a mere shadow of what you used to be.
This leads to depression and depression is the strange bedfellow of self-doubt. It can create anxiety attacks and place a drab colour over the world you once saw as bright and full of promise. You shy away from your friends and even your family because you have irrational hate or fear – the very emotions that will cause you to be alone. And alone, you wallow in your self pity, you let the depression gnaw away at the frayed bits of your sanity until you can take no more. Depression drives you to the brink of madness. You quit your job and you linger in the fringes of the world, seemingly looking in from a place that is exclusively and tormentingly yours. And you spy the rope, the blade and the pill as the bittersweet solace from your woes.
This may be a dark and morbid picture, a possible but far destination for us who are sometimes visited by that monster called self doubt. It may be a soft whisper against our ears but soon the voice will get louder and louder and we may end up overpowered by it and allow it to slip into our conscious minds.
Don’t let it come to that stage. We need to reprogram our mind and remove the monster from the recesses of our subconscious because ladies and gentlemen – this is where it lives. It feeds on the negative experiences and the bad influences of the world, advertising and examples we see and hear everyday. It is awakened by the failures in our lives – failures we allow to take over and breathe more life into this monster. The solution is out there – technology or even traditional methods that allow you to reach in and destroy the monster of self-doubt and take back your life. Psychological and subliminal – it’s time for an alternative solution.
