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Someone who is meticulous pays extreme attention to detail. If that person is, say, your surgeon or your accountant, you’ll definitely want them to be meticulous!

Over time, self-doubt can lead to problems with anxiety and depression, which in turn can lead to serious physical ailments like weight gain, high blood pressure, chronic fatigue and even increased mortality rates among those with heart disease.

Such doubts are really an invitation to personal discovery. You should fear your doubts about as much as you fear your questions. Doubting and questioning are good things when they lead you to investigate.

Despite all the doubts that he had, Prophet Muhammad started a revolution on his own. This is where it becomes clear that doubt is essential to faith. However, if you abolish all doubt and assume that you already possess all the answers, what is left is not faith, but heartless conviction.

There are always uncertainties in any live science, because science is a process of discovery… Doubt is crucial to science—in the version we call curiosity or healthy skepticism, it drives science forward—but it also makes science vulnerable to misrepresentation.

Doubt is the feeling of uncertain towards the truth. Persian proverb says that ‘doubt is the key to knowledge’. The ‘key’ here means that the uncertain feelings bring us closer to the truth and making the level of knowledge increases.

We doubt ourselves because we worry about what others may think of the ideas or plans that mean so much to us, that they couldn’t possibly have enough knowledge and depth of understanding for.

A 7 Step Process to Overcome Fear and Self-Doubt

1. Identify what you’re actually afraid of. What do you really fear?
2. Find situations related to your fear that are mildly uncomfortable.
3. Take action.
4. Visualize yourself being successful in what you are doubting or afraid of.
5. Allow for the small successes.
6. Be realistic.
7. Ask for help.

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” “Don’t worry about anything, instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done.”

Many anxiety disorder sufferers also deal with persistent self-doubt or judgment. Obsessive mindsets tend to go hand-in-hand with many different anxiety disorders, so it’s very common to feel like you don’t measure up to your own or to others’ expectations and to let that impact you in a severe way.

Here are six tips for dealing with skeptics:

1. Talk to the “man in the mirror.” You are your own worst critic, Peggs says.
2. Remain positive and confident.
3. Hear your haters, but pay them no mind.
4. Get back up after every fall.
5. Give them a reason to believe in you.
6. Don’t surround yourself with too many skeptics.

doubt (verb) doubt (noun) doubting Thomas (noun)

Relationship Insecurity: 12 Steps to Overcoming Self Doubt

1. Stop saying you are insecure.
2. Doubt your doubts.
3. Name your critic.
4. Stop overthinking.
5. Get to the root of it.
6. If you need help, ask for it.
7. Cut off your comparisons.
8. Cultivate confidence.