What Happens When You Experience Overwhelming Self-Doubt?

This is a position that nobody wants to be in. This is the hell for proponents of character and self improvement. This is where we do not want to be - and once we surrender to this, there is almost no where to turn again. It is a dark place, treacherous and full of quicksand patches 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. These hands are not yours that raise to shield away the reflection you see before you. The voice is not yours that brands yourself a failure and the floor has overtaken your vision as you look down - realising the disaster that gazes back at you with even a hint of sarcasm, fear and loathing. 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 chew upon your suffering until your stomach is full of it and you can take no more. Depression drives you to a mania. 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 solace - the final solution.

This is a dark picture and a possible but far destination for us who are sometimes visited by that monster called self doubt.  It may just whisper to us now but soon the voice will get louder and louder and we might have no choice but to listen to it.

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 has been nursed by the negative experiences and the bad influences of the world, advertising and examples we see and hear everyday. It is led 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 remove this monster and take back your life. Psychological and subliminal - it’s time for an alternative solution.