Have you:
- Ever been in a room full of people and felt that you must just get out of the room?
- Been in the supermarket and felt like you were going to faint?
- Got ready to go on a date and found that you could not leave the bathroom?
- Been in a restaurant and felt like you were suffocating?
Anxiety and depression can creep up on you without warning and often appear on the surface to come from nowhere. The awful wet and miserable weather we are having combined with the uncertain economic climate does not help lift depression and ease anxiety so if you feel your anxieties are overwhelming you it may be time to seek help.
In your enthusiasm to please others whether it is at home or at work, it is all too easy to take on too much and put yourself under extreme pressure. Eventually that pressure may turn to stress and then you will begin to achieve less and less and just get angry with yourself.
Low self-esteem is often the root cause of a desire to please everybody all of the time and somehow the word "NO" does not come into your vocabulary.
