Overcoming Obstacles ( Self-Esteem Challlenge)
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Day 13 of our Self-Esteem Icebreakers in celebration of the 30 Day Self-Esteem Challenge across the community.
Today's theme is "Overcoming Obstacles".
What are some obstacles that are preventing you from accomplishing your goals?
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Doesn't want to face the chance that my plan won't go as planned.
@CheeryMango
What are some obstacles that are preventing you from accomplishing your goals?
Procrastinating, my fear, my family not understanding me and me not wanting to let my family in
@CheeryMango
Not getting enough sleep is making it harder to stick to my taper, and to get stuff done during the daytime.
I have rewritten up my taper plan though, so I can take less benzo's during the daytime so I can leave more to take in the evening. I'm hoping in the longrun this will make things easier, but of course it will be hard to adjust to it at first during the day when I'm not use to it yet.
@CheeryMango
self doubts, insecurities, uncertainty
Fear of failure. Over-worrying. Catastrophizing (sp?). I get stuck in my own head a lot.
I don't know why do I feel this way but I always feel that people do not like me and they do not want to talk to me. I feel like people are avoiding me as if I am ugly, lower than them etc. People do not want to sit with me. I am a person who remains silent most of the time but now I have changed my habit and try to talk to people, but most of the time it is me who is initiating the convo, not them. Everyone is always trying to avoid me. Other people get more importance than I do. Everyone else gets more attention and respect than I do. I always think before I speak so the way I talk can't be the reason for all this. I really need help with this. This feeling is destroying me literally.
@Zarram77
Hi Zarram, I can really relate to your post. These sort of thoughts are often ingrained, we can learn them as a baby/child as we try to make sense of how our carers respond to us. Maybe they were just busy or troubled or something else, but we took it to mean that we were unloveable in some way. Those thought patterns become dominant and can rule our lives sometimes. I found counselling with Internal Family Systems approach very helpful. It helps us to learn to understand the parts of us that have these sorts of feelings. There are other approaches also, including DBT, which there are some self-help guides on here.
