People who were “gifted” in elementary school: what are you doing in life now?

Not to toot my own horn but initiative was never personally my issue. I started 5 different business before 30 years old from scratch, 2 of them grossed a million in the first 3 years. My trouble happened when I secured a 10 million dollar cash infusion to build a state of the art new facility but it fell through and it triggered my anxiety "breakthrough". I dedicated every ounce of energy I had to building a company for years and had multiple investors worth 700+ million each and they ended up pulling out. I had the confidence of a lion because everyone always built me up but when everything slipped through my fingers I felt like I lost it all. Now for the past 4 years I've horrible anxiety with things as simple as going to the grocery story or going to dinner with family. Depression so bad it's hard to get out of bed most days. So weird going from feeling like I was on top of the world to getting anxious in day to day interactions.

Sorry for the sob story but kinda felt good typing it out.

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