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First time posting on this thread (and any Entrepreneur thread) I've been lurking for a LONG time! - All the lurking gave me motivation to start up a Logo design business 6 weeks ago, which has been making a small bit of money per week. It could be much more if it wasn't for my complex brain.
Here's why. I've been battling depression and anxiety for a lot of my life. I am 18, I've been an entrepreneur since I was 10, when I was 11 I was making $1,000 a day selling DVDs on eBay, until 1 day my emotions took over me and I completely stopped everything, spent the next 7 years dealing with becoming an adult as well as a heavy mental health weight I couldn't battle on my own, but couldn't tell anyone. This year was particularly the hardest year of my life. It wasn't until I had a new feeling at 11PM at night 6 weeks that I felt motivated to try and resell a business service online, it took me 3 hours to set up, the next morning I had sales coming through that fuelled me with 3 weeks of motivation.
But it seems the depression and anxiety has crawled back into me again, it has affected my relationships with family, friends - I feel absolutely alone. Money is my greatest confidence booster (I admit it) - I come from a wealthy family, but that wealth doesn't totally get poured into my business ventures, my sisters get there $150,000 private boarding school education and there $60,000 degrees totally paid off, but it's a big meeting and discussions to borrow a mere $2000 from my family, so now I don't bother asking them. I don't have any friends or family or truly understand what this business is, everyone seems to just ask me how much money I made this week.
I guess I am scared. Scared that I wont find the cure at the other end of this journey (financial freedom) which sometimes I get scared of and my mind will naturally kick me into a state of not believing in anything I do - all I do in these modes is read peoples 'failure stories' on forums.
I am doing this totally alone. My depression and anxiety limits me to only being able to communicate with only a very select few people via the internet - to be honest, I'm shit scared of you all. It's almost like a feeling that the world is out to get you, and the only weapon is money, as it can pay the way to be as distanced and protected from the harmful and inhumane society we live in today.
I feel really alone trying to make my way to the 'top' (financial freedom) - like all you beautiful minds, I wouldn't be able to handle working for someone else.
Have you dealt with these feeling, or overcome them?
First time posting on this thread (and any Entrepreneur thread) I've been lurking for a LONG time! - All the lurking gave me motivation to start up a Logo design business 6 weeks ago, which has been making a small bit of money per week. It could be much more if it wasn't for my complex brain.
Here's why. I've been battling depression and anxiety for a lot of my life. I am 18, I've been an entrepreneur since I was 10, when I was 11 I was making $1,000 a day selling DVDs on eBay, until 1 day my emotions took over me and I completely stopped everything, spent the next 7 years dealing with becoming an adult as well as a heavy mental health weight I couldn't battle on my own, but couldn't tell anyone. This year was particularly the hardest year of my life. It wasn't until I had a new feeling at 11PM at night 6 weeks that I felt motivated to try and resell a business service online, it took me 3 hours to set up, the next morning I had sales coming through that fuelled me with 3 weeks of motivation.
But it seems the depression and anxiety has crawled back into me again, it has affected my relationships with family, friends - I feel absolutely alone. Money is my greatest confidence booster (I admit it) - I come from a wealthy family, but that wealth doesn't totally get poured into my business ventures, my sisters get there $150,000 private boarding school education and there $60,000 degrees totally paid off, but it's a big meeting and discussions to borrow a mere $2000 from my family, so now I don't bother asking them. I don't have any friends or family or truly understand what this business is, everyone seems to just ask me how much money I made this week.
I guess I am scared. Scared that I wont find the cure at the other end of this journey (financial freedom) which sometimes I get scared of and my mind will naturally kick me into a state of not believing in anything I do - all I do in these modes is read peoples 'failure stories' on forums.
I am doing this totally alone. My depression and anxiety limits me to only being able to communicate with only a very select few people via the internet - to be honest, I'm shit scared of you all. It's almost like a feeling that the world is out to get you, and the only weapon is money, as it can pay the way to be as distanced and protected from the harmful and inhumane society we live in today.
I feel really alone trying to make my way to the 'top' (financial freedom) - like all you beautiful minds, I wouldn't be able to handle working for someone else.
Have you dealt with these feeling, or overcome them?
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