Incompetence
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Conquering Anxiety Over Feeling Incompetent
Failed work attempts…trying and failing again and again; how am I going to go about conquering anxiety over feeling incompetent? What did I do when I failed to do well in my work assignments? I quit, gave up, and decided it wasn’t meant to be. The pain of failing has left me in a state of depression. I figured, why try? Growing up, my verbally abusive mother belittled me and criticized me for every fault. She reinforced the message that I was an incompetent failure. I stayed stuck for twenty-two years after high school, unable to make progress, working dead-end menial jobs and enduring abuse from impatient managers who also…