[Icare dixit]

Do you expect too much of yourself?

I generally expect to fail, so I'm scared of doing anything to achieve something, to reach/realise my potential. If there's still a chance of succeeding, I do everything to make sure it's no longer an option.

Mania, fear-induced fearless psychosis, is different in different in that I desperately want to succeed and (sometimes after a while) I think I will succeed, after which I think I will fail, become so fearful it causes psychosis and I will eventually realise I've actually failed and (later still) that others aren't to blame to the extent I thought they were. That's pretty much typical mania, right?

Of course it still is a problem with expectations.

[Fuzzybear]

I do expect too much of myself
Relatives do as well ..
(Most of them don't even know me )

[Guiness187055]

I learned expect nothing and be grateful for what you get.

[Unrigged64072835]

I sometimes have high expectations. It tends to bite me in the butt. Right now I'm working on realistic expectations.

[xRavenx]

This is a big problem for me too; especially during mania. It's also part of my character to have high expectations, and I have to really work on this. Mania won't allow me to improve upon this though, so hopefully I won't keep falling into that trap.

[Sunflower123]

I was an overachiever, driven and highly productive before I became ill. Most days I still expect that level of performance from myself even though it's not realistic and I never come near that level.

I struggle with expectations when it comes to the low days.

I think along the lines of.. well, I should be doing so more right now, I should be doing something with myself- and here I am doing **** all.

trying to learn ways to accept that this is today, this is what I can get done today, maybe you'll get more done tomorrow