Self-Doubt

Self-doubt is a slow-acting poison, harming the outer layers of the mind in gradation till it reaches the core of confidence. There it latches itself, infusing its noxious blackness and counter-reacting with every attempt of firm resolution. The more self-doubt is left to mix, the more the infusion grows thicker. Detoxification lies in both the adoption of the volitional obstinacy that the poison is only potent so long as one allows it to have power and a complete and as equally gradual flushing out of a system of confidence that can be rebuilt into something that is robust through and through.