I feel so down today. I want to open up this to my friends but I was so shy to ask for an advice. I''ve been a guitarist in our church for about 1yr now and still I feel like, I''m not improving. I have also my churchmate, a guitarist, and I felt envy sometimes because, she was better than me. Everybody notices her. I''m so proud of her and smiled at her but deep inside, it hurts me. And I also felt like my mentor like to teacher her more than me because I am slow. Any advices? or Encouragements? Thank you. ❤️
[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the Hobbies category? Maybe give some free advice about: Music? Dragonflymagic answered Saturday January 12 2019, 12:58 am: I have been shy in my past and also had an anxiety, social anxiety as well as having low self esteem, and no confidence. I also had lots of distorted thinking. I think I am seeing all of this in what you wrote. My advice on this is going to big very long because there is a lot to cover, there is no quick simple fix.
If by 'feeling down' you mean that you are depressed, then it depends on whether you tend to get this feeling in other areas of your life? If this is a one time thing, then perhaps you are more feeling blue, lonely, upset about where you are at.
A true depression affects your appitite so you don't want to eat, you only want to sleep and can't motivate yourself to get going and do things each day for a few examples.
I am guessing you are simply sick and tired of being the way you are. In this, you truly have to hit rock bottom before you will be willing to do whatever it takes to raise your self esteem, become confident, or overcome a fear of people as far as talking to them or confiding in them.
I will tell you of documents I have pre-made to simply paste in if you wish to hear the topic and get the advice. It would be too long too share all here at once. So, if you would like to know how to overcome shyness, that is one document, if you would like to know how gain self esteem and high confidence, thats another one. If you would like to hear more about the problem of distorted thinking and how it affects the life of a person and how to recognize it and how to stop it, that is another document. Pick one and I will share. When you've recieved my answer, if wanting to hear another, you'd have to write me again, but write your request only from going to my column and writing from there, not from writing in the comments section of this answer. [ Dragonflymagic's advice column | Ask Dragonflymagic A Question ]
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