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[My] 7 Top Articles Helpful to Entrepreneurs in Admitting and Dealing With Anxiety and Depression – From all levels of start-up to big success in entrepreneurship, there exists a dark cloud often not talked about. It is anxiety and depression.
At worst, I’ve read stories of very successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs committing suicide.
Entrepreneurship can be gruesome. Read more
Wearing my loafers, scarf down to the knees. All black. Obviously feeling good – obviously looking good. I just finished a good and progressive meeting. 4 PM on a groovy Saturday – restaurants are filled with girls on fleek. Hello girls, can I come join you? But there is only money to get home; therefore it’s the only way I can head. Read more
Sometimes I literally can feel my mind is overworked – like a car overheating – and frustration and desperation are taking control of my mental engine.
What if like the engine in a car we could turn our mind on and off to cool it down? Or like a computer we can refresh and clear our mental RAM? Read more
Where to Get Help for Anxiety – Since publishing ‘The Anxious Entrepreneur’, I’ve been making interesting contacts with people.
I am not a professional anxiety, depression and suicide expert.
If you believe you suffer from anxiety, depression and are having suicidal thoughts, I humbly request that you get help from a trained professional. These are serious conditions you need to attend urgently.
So below follows places to find such help:
The organisations below have support groups and/or programmes in various parts of the country. Find out if they do not have support closer to your area.
LifeLine Southern Africa
This is a 24 hour emotional crisis intervention service. It’s free and confidential.
In each country, there are organisations and support groups that assist people experiencing these conditions. Search and approach them for help. And the prominent ones are mostly free.
If you are in a crisis, I suggest you contact a depression, suicide or emergency helpline in your country.
In any case, here are some online resources you can use (some are free, some are free for the first session and others charge throughout):
Free, anonymous and confidential online text chat with trained listeners, online therapists & counsellors.
Website https://www.7cups.com
Assists with depression, sadness and burned out.
Website www.counselo.com
Helps people find great mental health resources like therapists, support groups, wellness tools, as well as an overall sense of community.
Offers a combination of a professional therapist directory as well as self-help wellness resources – all free of charge to the community in need.
Website www.therapytribe.com
Convenient, affordable, private online counselling – anytime and anywhere.
Website www.betterhelp.com
I have always been entrepreneurial. On two separate occasions as a kid I had vegetable gardens. On each, my grandmother, and later her daughter (my mother), gave away almost all my produce and thus succeeded in liquidating my intended businesses. I guess my mother got it from her mother – my grandmother gave it to her daughter.
Among the other things I aspired to be was Jean Claude Van Damme. I didn’t want to be Chuck Norris because he had bushy chest hair. I am 30 today, with medium chest hair. It is even turning white.
How my story should be is: he grew up poor, went to university; he then ventured into business, struggled for a bit of time and then became very successful. “He Read more
This post inspired my compilation book, ‘Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety.’ It’s on Amazon. Order here if in South Africa – or visit your nearest bookstore.
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This is an extract from my latest and fourth book, The Anxious Entrepreneur. This piece of content is related to 14 Stoicism Quotes that Help Heal Anxiety.
Entrepreneurship is a nerve wracking business. Entrepreneurs are always anxious about multiple things. They have goals and therefore expectations, but it is known that things cannot go according to one’s wishes, plans, desires, needs or desperation all the time.
Expectations are rarely met and subconsciously, when they aren’t, we are shaken. It is an opportune window for anxiety or even depression to set in, depending on the severity or extent of the misfortune. Read more
Find this book on Amazon, my webstore (if you’re in South Africa), Takelot.com, or in South African bookstores (Bargain Books, Exclusive Books, Protea, etc.)
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It was at about 3:35 pm. I felt I was about to faint or have a panic attack. The day was not going well. Over and above, I was overly tired. Read more
These points are extracted from my fourth book, The Anxious Entrepreneur. Here are some of the Ways To Reduce Anxiety.
It was at about 3:35 pm. I felt I was about to faint or have a panic attack. The day was not going well. Over and above, I was overly tired.
It had been weeks since I had any ‘win’. Therefore I needed to hustle people on the phone even if it was 4:00 pm. I was desperate. For goodness’ sake, that time is around knock off time. A business pitch is the last thing they would want to hear.
A rejection email had heightened the panic. All these triggered my mind to think I have no hope: immediately, I time travelled in the past and the future. I saw no advantage of what my past has brought to today and I saw no light in my future. Here are some of the Ways To Reduce Anxiety.
Below is what I do to counter such episodes. Read more