Feeling Pathetic

When we give into our anxiety, many of us tend to feel pathetic. I just gave into my anxiety and that’s exactly how I feel. While I know I’m able to do things, sometimes anxiety can be so overwhelming that at the time, we feel like we aren’t. After we relax, we tend to look back on how we acted and feel as if we failed. While the only real failure is giving up completely, it often doesn’t feel that way at the moment.

Anxiety is tiring and it takes away a lot of our energy. However, while we often times want to put a stop to it right then and there, we often find that it’s not that simple. I hate that. I hate the fact that anxiety can be so powerful that it makes us feel so weak and scared. However, we have to remember that none of us are perfect and that even if sometimes we fall down and struggle, it’s getting back up that matters. It’s trying over and over again until we get better.

I know it can be difficult to go through life feeling anxious and struggling with things that should be a lot simpler. I know this. The truth is though that we are stronger than our anxiety even if we don’t always feel like it. We have to keep trying and we have to prove to ourselves that we can in fact get through our anxiety.

Right now, I admit that I feel miserable. I feel horrible that once again I let my anxiety take control and allowed it to make me feel weak. I feel pathetic that I couldn’t do something so simple. As hard as it may be to believe though, I know that I’m not pathetic. I just struggle with something that can be incredibly difficult to deal with. The important thing is that I am and that I continue, trying my hardest to get better!