The inability to believe in yourself is Self Doubt. When you no longer trust your own skills and capabilities. Self Doubt can be induced or triggered.
Induced Self Doubt
Various reasons can be responsible for inducing self doubt.
- Failures
- Embarrassment
- Abuse
- Over expectations
- Disability
Triggered Self Doubt
Some times it so happens that a particular incident and some circumstances shatter your self belief. Its like a shock. Everything happens so suddenly that you just can’t cope with it. It can even be a tragedy or an accident.
Induced self doubt is more difficult to cure. This is because you can not relate to any particular event. Also because it creeps in so slowly that it may even get into your subconscious self. Triggered self doubt can be dealt by fogging. We discussed it before but briefly. Next time we will try to go into details.