Deep-Seated Doubt
 When your world shocks you into
this profound doubt, you find yourself beginning to doubt most everything. You may begin
to feel you cannot possibly find happiness or meaningful experience through your present
relationships with others. Life is no longer a party. Nor does life seem to promise
satisfaction anymore. No matter how good the world looks, it can leave you stranded or
cause pain. Life has a vicious stinger. In this way your doubt grows into a gnawing,
underlying anxiety that people and things cannot satisfy you in the long run. People may
provide some satisfactions, but then again they may go away ¾
through inclination or burial. Having been deeply hurt or disappointed, you look at the
world fearfully. You doubt the ability of your world to give you lasting happiness or any
comfortable, ongoing fulfillment. You just can't count on the world!Your doubt can
become more deep-seated and even more fearful when it is not caused by someone or
something in the outer world that lets you down. Imagine being able to rely on your legs
for years, only to find they do not work today ¾ and have to
be cut off next week. Imagine having had fine eyes to see with but today all's a blur.
What of having great vitality and suddenly you're paralyzed with a stroke? Suddenly
illness has a frightening impact on your view of life and of yourself. Similarly, big or
frequent shocks in realms of romance and career can push you into this state of deep doubt
and anxiety.
In some cases, this form of doubt becomes
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