Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I sometimes feel this huge motivation to get out of my shell, talk to people, and simply be myself no matter what people think of me. However, my voice is something that always seem to stop me. I'm a girl and I sound like a guy! I have a very deep and raspy voice and I hate it soooooooooooo much. Some people have told me that they find my voice unnatractive and annoying because I'm a girl and I sound like a boy. I wish I had a very sweet, soft, and clear voice like most women. I used to have a voice like this when I was little, but then I hit puberty and my voice became very deep and raspy. I've never met any women with deep and raspy voices like mine. This has brought my self-esteem down a lot. Now I think I'll make people a favor by keeping my mouth shut and not speaking, just so they don't have to hear my horrible voice. It also doesn't help having a heavy accent. Most people don't seem to understand what I say, even though I talk loud and clear. I know its stupid to judge people based on what their voice sounds like, but I've seen it happening a lot. How can I stop worrying about how I sound?
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
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My day...today...misplaced my debit card...didn't realize it until I got to the register after shopping to a full cart. Used a different debit card and pulled apart everything looking for missing debit card before I left parking lot. Got home, dropped keys. So now I have a missing debit card, missing keys. A full cartload to unload and put away. I got everything put away.Dumped purse for a...
There is a TV personanity. He did not change his voice when he was a teenager. People think he is a women when only hearing his voice. A lot of people does not like themselves. We just have to accept ourselves.
Just a brain fart. . . In my strictly personal herstory, I started life with a severe speech defect and singing lessons were the speech therapy which got me over that hurdle. I was taught to sing what I needed to say and then regulate my tones to sound like normal speech. I still stutter under duress, but I can always sing. Don't much care if I ever win a Grammy Award or not.
But on the psychobabble note, I wonder about working on self-acceptance, self-love and challenging the validity of allowing a few critics to speak for the world at large. Lauren Bacall's throaty tones still intrigue me mightily. She is nowhere near the only Hollywood Icon who made her *freak* qualities into a trademark.
You are in good company.
Wear that with pride instead of thinking of yourself as a misfit. You are not a misfit.