Why do I always think everything I do is wrong?
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It can really depend because there can be so many factors that could be contributing to these thoughts. These aren't questions that need to be answered out loud, but maybe to think to yourself, is there a history of bullying and abuse? When did these thoughts start? Is there a trigger for these thoughts? A lot of the time with bullying and abuse for example, when we hear things we eventually begin to believe it. Some negative things only need to be said once for a person to believe it, unfortunately. But at the end of the day, you aren't doing everything wrong; and even if you were doing things wrong, it's okay to make mistakes. It's a part of being human.
Anonymous
June 20th, 2018 12:46pm
Insecurities are the strongest when you're completely focused on yourself and what you do or how you do it. Looking at other people, not judging them but just observing them and talking to them and sharing with them always lets me know that I'm not the only one who doubts themselves. I'm an introvert but I try my best to come out of my comfort zone and force myself to see that even my worst mistakes are easily replicated and dealt with by millions of other people. That makes me stop being so hard on myself and being so pessimistic. It makes me more confident even, sometimes.
Because you may have been conditioned to think that way and just are not conscious of it. Think who in your life might have been critical of you.
It sounds like you may suffer with low self-esteem. I'm sure that you are doing fine and believing in yourself will help you to know if you are right or wrong.
Maybe because you have low self esteem or maybe because someone created that idea on you, telling you that many times that you started to believe in it
Anonymous
August 19th, 2017 2:44pm
It can be beacuse of depression or etc. mental disease. im sure about that it is not about you at all.
Anonymous
September 6th, 2016 2:41pm
sometimes world realize you that everything I do is wrong. It's just their perception nothing else. I have to criticized about my work. Then may be i understand what i did wrong.
Anonymous
January 7th, 2017 2:10am
I can definitely relate to how you are feeling. I can say that, for me, it may be my lack of self-esteem. I will admit that I need validation from other people first before I engage in an activity. This can be fixed, I feel, by placing more confidence in ourselves. Perhaps, our fear of doing the wrong thing oftentimes causes us to do the wrong thing. But when we have confidence in our own abilities, we act more competently.
It might be because how your parents raised you, try to force yourself into thinking that there are things that you do well and things you dont do well.
Anonymous
May 30th, 2019 6:27pm
Being a devout Christian, I can relate this very easily. It’s so easy for me to feel like everything I do is a sin, and that God is mad at me and doesn’t want to talk to me. But the truth is, life is life. In life, you make mistakes. You’re human. You’re not perfect. No one is. And that’s okay. It’s honestly part of what makes life so beautiful. Because think about it, without mistakes we wouldn’t have mercy; without tears we wouldn’t have compassion; without pain we wouldn’t have healing. Life is a beautiful gift, and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying its increÃble offers.
Anonymous
May 21st, 2020 2:24am
Actions and decisions are meant to be right and wrong, but at the end of the day, they're the ones that should come from your heart. Sometimes the actions and decisions we make seem right or even wrong, but at the end of the day, it's not always about the outcome, but the process. In our journey through life, we will come across many actions and decisions to make, and sometimes they can be the best ones or even the worst ones, but it's about how you learn from them. There are people who will support you through your decisions and some won't, and each moment in your life is for a reason, good and bad. It's just the doubts and fears that come with those deeds. In our minds, we seem to envision the outcome of our actions and how we will feel about it, but really, the outcome can come to be the opposite of what we think. It's just our thoughts overcoming the chance for happiness and confidence in those decisions. Eventually you will find things that turn out right with people there to support you, and that's one of the most beautiful moments in life, and sometimes even the ones that feel wrong can lead up to that too, it's all for a reason and purpose.
Anonymous
May 16th, 2020 4:17am
Its easy to think of wrong things because as humans, we tend to take note and be more critical. This is where self praise can come in handy. Evolutionarily, we learn by trial and error. Unfortunately it can be too easy to get stuck on errors. Everybody would benefit from taking note of the good that one does as an individual. Getting over the slump of negative thought concentration can be tough but if you can disclipline youtself to reframe your thinking structure, you will feel foolish for only concentrating on the negative in the past. The future is full of oppurtunities for growth and development, you cant have either without learning from past mistakes.
Having no belief in yourself and your abilities leads to uncertainty in many aspects of your life. The uncertainty seems to have a flow in effect that becomes apparent in many daily living activities you try to achieve. Being able to acknowledge and remedy any situation as soon as you are aware of an issue is important.
Sometimes issues are not always apparent and we need to trust those around us with any information or guidance they may have to help us move forward. Some times you feel like you aren’t moving forward and allowing others to help us forward is important in our journey.
Anonymous
February 20th, 2020 1:47am
That is a great question.
I thank you for the opportunity to try my best to answer it.
Sometimes our mind plays tricks on us.
It makes us think we are doing everything wrong,when we are doing things right.
You maybe asking your self,why does the mind do that?
Well the mind is very hard to figure out at times.
But hopefully with people who do studies on the brain,will come up with better ways of,why people think the way they do,and help us better to understand the mind and the brain better,and hopefully we will be better off for it in the long run.
I hope this helps.
If you fail in many of your attempts consecutively you conclude that you will fail every time without analyzing what was the reason for the failures. . The wrong does not lie with the doer but with the actions. you equate the results of actions with a doer . if actions are modified suitably , action will lead to successful results
Humans are very confusing and complex creatures, and so when we do small things we convince ourselves that maybe we could have done better, or maybe we made ourselves look silly. Though in your mind, you truly believe everything you do, you mess up or do it wrong, the truth is that nobody but you is thinking that. your anxieties and fears make you believe things that aren’t actually as bad as they seem! For example, maybe when you were ordering food you stuttered and slurred, and after you beat yourself up about it, but in reality the cashieer has seen much worse things! by the next day, they wouldn’t even remember the simple exchange. Anxiety likes to magnify simple mistakes and make them seem so much worse than they actually are. In conclusion, you’re not as bad as you think. stay safe!
Anonymous
January 2nd, 2020 7:05am
Not everything you do is wrong. Get rid of the negatives, stay positive. Sometimes I get the same feeling, you are not alone out other. To stay happy you should get the negativity out of your mind. You should believe in yourself. Not everything you do is wrong, you have failed to see the right in that.
When a person looks at their life they instinctively perceive the world around them through a variety of lenses that are based on their experiences, moral systems, ideologies etc. One such lens of perception centers around the perception a person has of themselves.
If that lens is negative you will immediately consider anything that you might do in a negatively light, with suspicion, or maybe just not "good enough" whatever that mean for the person.
If you want to know why you think everything you do is wrong be honest with how you look at yourself. Do you believe you are incompetent and worthless? If you do then naturally you will believe that everything you do cannot possibly be done right because you think you are incapable of doing things correctly.
There are other possibilities however, maybe its just you have extreme and unrealistic expectations of yourself. Perfectionism is hardly an unusual condition and it is almost never a good thing as it stresses a person to achieve a position that they cannot reach which is demoralizing in the most poignant sense of the word.
Or perhaps someone else is telling you something is not good enough and you have no one to tell you when you do things correctly. If that is true then how could you know when you were doing things well? You'd naturally assume that nothing you did was ever good enough. And if that is the situation then that is tragic.
These are a few of the possibilities and they are not necessarily mutually exclusive but they are some of the reasons you may think everything you do is wrong.
because you are not sure about your possibilities. even if you are perfect, you always trying to be way better than you really are. it isn't your fault that you think in that way. its because of society. we never know what is right to do exactly... but we still doing because we dont have another choice to do. we need to try and then we will see the results, we never know how right is our moves but we still moving. if we stop, nothings will be go right... i suggest you to keep moving and do whatever you want, even if you think its wrong... you think in that way because people or things what is happening around you makes you to think like that. but if you dont pay attetion on your around and people, you will make choices without thinking of their rightness.
Anonymous
December 7th, 2019 8:19am
I always thought every step I took, every decision I made, every dream I dreamt about my future was wrong and I was a failure only because I never knew my own strength. Everyone at some point of time need someone else who listens to them, point out their strengths and give them hope when they feel they are lonely. Its really important to have people in our lives but people who are trust worthy, who are capable of understanding us are the real thing in need for anyone who is trying to come up by themselves. A helping hand is the major requirement as each and everyone have their own strengths which should be brought out.
I often struggled in school, and at extracurricular, and at relationships. Life feels tricky when you can't find something right away that you feel passionate about and others around you have found their passions. I realized it's not about doing everything right, it's about taking little steps. I took walks, looked at nature, took photos of trees and nature and surrounded myself with my passions. When you find things that make you happy, others’ skills and ways are less important. My life became no longer striving to win medals and get perfect scores, but find what made me happy. And that is what right is, to me.
Lack of Confidence , no can can know the after math of every decision we make if you want to be prefect just believe in yourself and keep saying i can do it
Hi, I am sorry that you are feeling so down on yourself :( I know that must be very difficult and deflating.
The majority of the time when we blame ourselves or see what we do as wrong it is because of something internal, perhaps a trauma or a way we have been conditioned to view ourselves that disrupts the way we perceive our lives and ourselves. That be said though, it doesn't mean that you are stuck in this place where you feel like everything you do is wrong. The most rewarding thing would be perhaps talking with someone about it, friends, family, a therapist, or even someone here on 7Cups. Don't be afraid to reach out and have a chat about why you feel this way and maybe we can get to the root of the problem.
I am here for you anytime that you need.
Best of luck
Because I tend to fail at a lot of things. I am very hard on myself, and I feel like I am not good enough. Everyone judges me and makes me feel worthless. I feel alone most of the time and that in turn makes me feel like I am always wrong. I need to try and focus more on self love and self acceptance. I put myself down too much when I should be trying to lift myself up. With no support whatsoever, i just feel so alone and like I dont mean anything. I feel like nothing. I feel numb.
Anonymous
September 7th, 2019 7:28pm
I believe this is down to a negative outlook on yourself and perhaps even life going on around you. It can make it worse if others tell you that you're doing something wrong as well. Focus on everything you do right, above anything you may do wrong, even if its as simple as you got up and got yourself ready on time, you remembered to take out the trash, every wrong can be made right with a little dedication. You just need to take a different outlook on the world going on around you and with a little practice, you'll be just fine.
Anonymous
September 4th, 2019 8:02pm
There can be a few contributors, though I believe the biggest one would be low self-esteem. If you don't think positively of yourself, it can reflect in your head as not being good enough for something. The human brain is a finicky thing, and can often be our worst enemy and a relentless bully. There are also many mental illnesses that can cause those kinds of feelings, so it is a case-by-case basis, but low self-esteem is very often a large contributor and goes hand in hand with mental illness. Taking the appropriate steps and working towards improving how you view yourself as a whole person may be able to help ease those feelings.
Anonymous
December 3rd, 2016 7:31pm
Everyone feels like that sometimes, and it's okay to think that from time to time. Even if you give it your all, you may think that you could have done it better, but that is because you already have gone through it and know how it went. And that's exactly it - you didn't know for certain how will it go, but you tried your best anyway. So there is not really doing it "wrong" - as long as you know you gave it your all and you tried your best. And even if you didn't, that's okay, too. You will get better at it next time.
It's because our ego forces us to over identify with negatives. It's simply a negativity bias. I can guarantee you do lots of things right (if you think about it) however you will often overlook those things. It's a human survival instinct to focus on negatives. After all that is how we tend to learn. We learn from our mistakes. But in today's world most people don't need that primal instinct as much. We live in an age that is far better than any time before and yet our instinct still drives us to dwell on or find negatives to focus on. Don't let that get you down though. You can retrain your thinking, thanks to the human brain having amazing plasticity. First help yourself be more aware of the positives and second, reframe the negatives as positives.
It is usually down to how you feel about yourself, your self worth and the confidence you have in yourself. I found looking up articles about self worth and mindfulness meditation helps me ground myself in the here and now stops me second guessing myself, and your mind working overtime which can cause doubts to build. But the biggest thing is confidence. In yourself and your abilities. You may have moments of self doubt about a few things but you should not have them about everything.
We tend to be our worst critics! Having these thoughts is normal, but it's important to address them. These kinds of thoughts are called thinking traps and tend to be caused by stress or feeling anxious about something. Try and address these traps. It can be hard to flat out avoid them, but be mindful when you start thinking in this all or nothing mindset. When you think "everything" is wrong, you are thinking all-or-nothing. Try to write down your thoughts, and then list out rational responses and refocus how you look at such "wrongdoings." If you are having trouble reworking your thoughts, work through it with a friend or a listener, a third party can help you rationalize.
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