I love to help people. In fact, this entire blog represents my sincere compassion for people who live with abnormal anxiety. I write and create podcasts here because I care. I don't do it for money or recognition. I do it because I want to help you. Now imagine how I feel when I get criticism delivered in a rude or smug manner. As if someone who's devoted hundreds of hours of his own time to help people for free deserves that. It's uncalled-for. The Provocation I bring all this up because in the last week I've received two
Coping with Anxiety and Criticism
Criticism sucks. There just isn't any other way of saying it. For anxiety sufferers dealing with criticism is especially hard, because it seems to arouse our worst fears about being judged or belittled. And it's not like being sensitive to criticism is unique to people with anxiety, it's just that many of us - like so many other things - react to it fiercely. For example, when I graduated from University and got my first "real job" I wasn't prepared for the rough and tumble world of corporate style criticism. My first reaction