One of the things that may happen to you overtime is a loss of self confidence.
At some point you start to get blue and think that your life is just about anxiety. If you let it, anxiety can rob you of your confidence and make you suggestible to negative thoughts and self destructive behavior.
Regaining or at least being conscious of regaining your self confidence can play a huge role in how well you adapt to this condition. You literally have to get out of bed in the morning and believe that today will be better than yesterday. That you will achieve your goals, both long and short term.
You see, once you start believing that you are no good, or that you are tainted somehow, you develop a negative self image and slide further into the abyss of anxious thought and feeling. You have to accept that you are not well, but not out. You can recover and regain control.
Self confidence is not only the idea of self worth and planning for success. It is present in the movements you make, how you walk, how you talk, how you stand, how you shake hands with people. All of these things are inter-related and inform your overall sense of you.
Your world and therefore reality is created by those outside you to a large extent, but as an actor (so to speak) in that world you have some real control of how you are perceived and therefore how you perceive yourself. This anxiety business is tough and grueling over the long term.
But you are not alone and there is still a lot you can do to reverse these hellish experiences. It will take time and patience but if you actively seek to rid yourself of anxiety or if you simply learn to control it effectively you can be your old self. You can be happy and crack jokes and not resign yourself to sitting at home alone wondering when this will all blow over.
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