{"id":246,"date":"2017-10-20T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:58:36","slug":"a-crisis-of-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"A Crisis of Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Something that&#8217;s <strong><em>so clear<\/em><\/strong> to me sometimes seems like <em><strong>pure fantasy<\/strong><\/em> at other times, and I think that <em>right now<\/em> I understand. Because of that, I think it&#8217;s critical that I write this <strong>now<\/strong>. For me, words are so powerful, that things that I&#8217;m feeling are simply <em>not real<\/em> unless I can explain them with words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, the words are describing a concept that&#8217;s pretty much obvious to people that know me.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve had a&nbsp;<em>crisis of confidence<\/em> for something like six years now, and it&#8217;s at the base of pretty much <em>all<\/em> my problems. Paradoxically, this crisis of confidence is <em>the very thing<\/em> that keeps me from <em>truly believing<\/em> that it&#8217;s the real &#8220;root&#8221; of my issues. The crisis is basically &#8220;protecting itself&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m already beginning to lose the &#8220;edge&#8221; of feeling that was driving this, so I&#8217;m not going to be able to finish writing about it in this post. Heck, I&#8217;m probably not even going to be able to really <em>get started<\/em>. What I&#8217;ve done is added a new tag (&#8220;crisis of confidence&#8221;) that will allow me to write more later, and the tag will tie all those posts together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that&#8217;s so clear to me sometimes seems like pure fantasy at other times, and I think that right now I understand. Because of that, I think it&#8217;s critical that I write this now. For me, words are so powerful, that things that I&#8217;m feeling are simply not real unless I can explain them with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,8,12],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crisis-of-confidence","tag-depression","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}