How To Overcome Anxiety If You Live By Yourself

Posted in Uncategorized on February 8th, 2010

We have already looked at the importance of self-confidence in dealing with panic and anxiety attacks. Unfortunately, partners and friends are not necessarily always helpful in massaging others’ self-confidence, and some positively seek to undermine it. It is important to recognize this, and understand that people who are like that have problems of their own. For whatever reason, there are those who like to pull others down, attempt to deflate their enthusiasm, ridicule their successes, find fault with what you do, or give insincere praise. These people are too negative to do your self-confidence any good.

Another exercise in dealing with anxiety symptoms, taking control of your life and giving yourself more self-worth is to decide not to accept their comments. This may mean excluding those people from your life altogether, or alternatively, learning assertiveness skills so that you can rebuff or challenge them. In the meantime it might be worth keeping in mind what Eleanor Roosevelt said, that ‘no one can make you feel inferior without your consent’.

Dealing with relationships which undermine rather than support is more difficult if you live with the person or people concerned. Years of such abuse may have built up, and will take some time to change and modify. It may be more difficult in such circumstances to outwardly become a challenging new you.