[header] How to stop feeling stupid when you have anxiety [title] Get some perspective. [step] Anxiety can distort your perspective, making you feel like one mistake is the end of the world. However, this is almost never true.
[header] How to stop feeling stupid when you have anxiety [title] Get some perspective. [step] Anxiety can distort your perspective, making you feel like one mistake is the end of the world. However, this is almost never true.
Obsessing over the future can make it hard to move on with your life. Challenge the uncertainty by sitting down and writing down your thoughts for a few days, or even a week. When you are surrounded by other people and wonder what you could have done differently, stop yourself and know that you did do something wrong. [substeps] When you're too wrapped up in your anxiety to control your thoughts or emotion, you'll begin to doubt yourself. People are rarely as critical of you as you are of yourself, and they probably don't even notice your mistakes as much as you do. [substeps] Even if you make an obvious social mistake, people probably don't hold it against you. When a person makes a mistake, it's because they simply don't know what to say. Ask yourself if there is something that really adds up to you feeling stupid.