Blogging with Anxiety; Not a “Good Enough” post
Good morning!
We’re coming back with one of theses.. because along with the lack of creativity for ideas lately, i’ve also suffered from the “Not good enough” syndrome concerning my ideas.
My other “Blogging with Anxiety” posts; Feeling we’re not enough // Content Wise // Stats // Posts Paranoïa // Have I posted this before? // Can I Say that? // Missing A Post // Tags
With the pandemic going on, it’s no secret that my mental health itself has been declining; and with it my ideas for posts and my confidence in whatever I choose to post.
The blog has also seen a decrease in views and comments – which I’m assuming is due to everyone feeling mostly alike me and thus wanting to step out of the internet and do *Other things*, despite maybe having more time on their hands.
Although we all know it’s our blog, thus we shall write more for ourselves and what makes us happy.. the decline has me feeling kind of like i’m speaking to a void – which makes me doubt most of what I wanna post.
Even with the inspiration, and especially if it’s more of thoses chatty/rambly post, I’m wondering if people would even care to read it. If it’s “good enough” to be read or shall be kept in my head – or in a notebook, as I can’t sleep if something’s turning inside my head too much 😪
It’s not even that I don’t feel like blogging anymore or absolutely don’t have any more ideas — it’s more that i’m overthinking it, like always. Most times, when I do ignore the thoughts and publish anyway, it ends up being one of thoses that has LOTS of tractions to it (likes & comments).
So it’s not like I don’t know that my brain is lying to me, but I gotta say that fighting with your brain is kinda harsh at times 😅 especially now that my spirits are already down and feeling the loneliness, it’s so much easier for my brain to tell me that nobody cares.
Have you been dealing with a similar thing too?
Do you have any tips onto making it go away faster?
I always feel like I’m not good enough but my blog is mostly for me and unfortunately I rarely have posting ideas besides reviews and memes.
I really need to go back onto that way of thinking. Most of what I’d wanna write beside that is just.. ramblings and personal things 😂 which, I guess just emphase the « is this good enough? »… as it would make total sense if it were purely bookish, but since it isn’t..
Well I can totally understand why it would be specially hard blogging now! And about the decrease in comments etc, it’s been months since I have seen your posts on the WP reader…. I think something is not working as it should and as you don’t show on the reader, we don’t see your posts.
I follow you through mail but as I have tons of mails every day, it gets drowned out into the rest…
Mmmh- yeah.. I don’t know what’s up with that 🤔 have you tried to put it manually in? I’ve seen others coming through the reader on my stats- I shall try to see what I can do.
Totally understand but the biggest hurdle I’ve found is getting started. If you just get your fingers on the keyboard and type out that first sentence of what ever the topic may be the rest should come easily. Good luck!
Thank you!
On my case, it’s quite easy for me to get the words down.. the problem is hitting the schedule button 😅 I wonder if it’d get people interested and stuff- which I need to think less of and just go with my heart and stop overthinking so much.