 Welcome to the anxious morning every weekday morning will take a few minutes to go over important lessons that you can use in your anxiety recovery journey The anxious morning brings you support education inspiration encouragement and empowerment Read or listen quietly on your own time free of the endless noisy scroll of social media Use the information to help you along the path to recovery from panic disorder Agoraphobia and other anxiety problems for more visit us at the anxious morning calm How my anxiety felt like a failure? failing hurts Feeling like a failure hurts more on Some days I not only felt like I was failing, but I felt like a failure Sometimes in these emails. I'm gonna share stories from my own anxiety journey I feel strongly that I can't suggest action that I have not taken myself And it helps me to feel like everything I went through was not for nothing Everyone fails we all make mistakes and do things that don't turn out the way we want them to I fail But by nature, I am not one to fail quietly when I fail. I don't go down easily Maybe this is a feature of my personality. Well, maybe this is a flaw. It depends on the day When I was struggling with anxiety and depression I often felt like I was failing the worst part of feeling that failure Was that anxiety made me feel like I was failing easily and passively I was giving up too easily I was retreating and letting things happen to me rather than making them happen I felt pretty lost on some days like I had completely lost my grip on me It was really a horrible feeling When you're generally bold in action and proactive in the way you approach life Sitting on the sofa afraid to go get milk and eggs when your wife asks for help Is not where you want to be The anxiety and the fear had taken something from me That was not drew sitting on that sofa. I don't know who it was, but I did not like him Fear is hard for everyone. I was certainly afraid. I'm totally okay telling you that in fact I was afraid all the damn time if I'm being honest But really the worst part was not the fear It was that feeling of passive failure And the worst part of the worst part was that for a long time I would respond to the feeling of passive failure with more passivity I would sit and think about it Ruminate on it hate it and get more and more upset with myself I would go over all the ways I could fix it But that was only happening in my head while I continued to just sit on the sofa Then my passive failure to fix my passive failure problem made me feel even worse These were the moments when feeling like I was failing became feeling like a failure Those were not good moments So what's the point of this story? The point is to simply tell you that if you are feeling like a failure, I get you There's more to than this than just panic attacks and intrusive thoughts There are emotions and feeling the sense of failure will trigger a bunch of them If you're feeling them today, that's okay. I've been there Do your best to take a small step or two in the right direction and tomorrow will be another day This will not be forever. You are not alone in what you feel I and a very large community of lovely humans will cheer for you when you are down Sometimes we just need to hear that On Monday, we're going to talk about the habit of always speaking your fear out loud And if you're liking the podcast and you'd like to have the podcast and full text delivered to your email every morning Visit us at the anxious morning dot email