Even simple tasks and decisions feel overwhelming.

You either default to people-pleasing or become defensive and irritable by the demands. Depleted by both, you withdraw from social opportunities and relationships, and are left feeling empty, alone, and misunderstood.

You hate playing the victim, but life feels unfair, like the deck is stacked against you.

No matter what you accomplish, it never feels like enough. The success you’ve achieved seems elusive and uncertain.

Comparing yourself to others or preoccupied by what they think of you keeps you trying to prove yourself and exhausted by the effort.

As your own worst critic, you tally up every mistake, flaw, or missed opportunity adding insult to injury.

You lie awake replaying conversations in your mind or second-guessing decisions you made months or even years ago.

The future feels foreboding –personally, globally, or both. Current events, politics, and pressure to figure it all out makes you want to crawl into a hole and hide.

Distraught by the injustice in the world and plagued by a sense of powerlessness to change it makes you not even want to try.

Driven to distraction or dissociation, you engage in self-defeating cycles of avoidance, compulsion, and shame.