Why Does Anxiety Make You Feel Like a Failure?

  Forgetful. Idiotic. Uncharismatic. Unmotivated. Always making mistakes. Does this sound like you? Few perceptions are more devastating than seeing yourself as a failure. Obviously, there are times when you have a run of bad luck or your self-esteem falters. However, anxiety feeds you with insecurity and orchestrates in your mind the idea that you’ll fail in much of what you set out to do. When this psychological dimension is persistently installed in your life, your thoughts become negative, obsessive, and sometimes even irrational. While it’s true that anxiety is a normal reaction to stimuli that you process as threatening, there…