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People who have known me well over the years are always giving me these kinds of well intentioned comments: "You need to be bolder, you're too timid"; "Why do you let people walk all over you?"; "You need to show the courage of your convictions"; "You're a good person who can't see the good in himself"; "You need to work on your self worth"; "Why do you always hesitate over everything?"; "Get out of that 'shell' of yours"; "Don't let the competition or the naysayers get you down". They're all totally correct.
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Sounds like what my first therapist called negative self-talk. I wasn't able to stop it on my own; I had to be medicates. But maybe you can get better at identifying it and stopping it before it paralyzes you.