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Daily writing prompt

What fears have you overcome and how?

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I wouldn’t say I have overcome them I’m just a lot less likely to let them control me.

I used to be incredibly anxious about. talking to other people but since I got jobs in customer service I learnt to ignore that anxiety. I loved talking to people when I got to know someone and I am very chatty but talking to someone face to face that I don’t know used to be very scary for me!

I used to hate any amount of height but due to my jobs where I’ve needed to go up on a ladder for customers and the fact I do love amazing views I also was able to force myself to ignore this fear.

My anxiety over heights also included flying but since I love going abroad I had to tackle this fear and I found the best remedy was to get myself to think about something else and I started to feel a lot calmer after I got used to going on flights by myself, which is a odd because I feel like I should be the opposite but I suppose since I proved to myself I could do it alone, I’ve felt a lot better about flying since then but that’s not to say I still don’t get anxiety over it, the anxiety is not as strong as it once was.

I also have a lot of anxiety over my own health where I just worry too much about my own future, have I been sitting too still that I’ll eventually get a blood clot and die? That ache in my chest that that palpitation I’m having that the doctors have assured me I’m fine, am I about to have a heart attack and die? The headache I’m having right now, am I about to have some blood burst in the brain and die? Or is my brain problems (I have too much pressure up there but I’ve decided to live with it and get some short but nasty headaches as I was told I could live with it since it didn’t interfere with my daily life) is getting worse and I haven’t noticed and I will die? Was that spot always like that, do I have cancer? Then after some panicking and watching it for a couple of days I realise yes it was always like that aaand on repeat.

I tend to have a mini freak out about once every three days but it used to be every single day so I guess that’s getting better? And I used to get a panic attack about these things at least once a week and but while it still happens it’s far less now.

I think I’m lessoned my fears in general by learning how to take my mind of it, usually forcing myself to think of something I love to do or I just love in general helps or something incredibly important to me that overrides my fears however if that doesn’t work I usually need others help to do that and ask them to talk to me about something I’d find interesting or funny.

While some of my anxieties I was able to calm down after I did them on repeat, my customer service jobs basically forced me to be more relaxed talking to other people, the I don’t want to get fired is a very good motivation funnily enough 😂

Anyway I hope everyone has had or is having a nice day! I am interested in what others have written for this prompt too 😊 also congrats to others for able to get over their fears too! 😁